ABSTRACT
In Mali, West Africa, literacy is a prominent issue as literacy levels remain low (26 per cent of the adult population is estimated literate, see for instance UNESCO 2011, Statistical tables). In this multilingual country, while the sole official language is French, African languages are mostly used for oral communication. Since written development of these languages is quite uneven, the choice of a language when it comes to writing is far from obvious and people often have unbalanced and mixed written repertoires.
