Doug has served as President of Alfa Alliance since 2002, the same year he joined the company. Following his graduation from Gettysburg College with a degree in Business Administration, he began his insurance career in 1979 with Allstate Insurance.
Chichewa or simply Chewa is a Bantu language spoken primarily in Malawi as well as parts of Zambia, Mozambique, Tanzania and Zimbabwe. Chichewa is very similar to Nyanja spoken in Zambia. There are estimated to be close to 9 million native speakers of Chichewa. Chichewa is one of the two official languages in Malawi, the other being English. It is also one of seven official languages spoken in Zambia.
Hopi is an Uto-Aztecan language spoken by approximately 5,000 people in northeastern Arizona in the USA. Although there are relatively few speakers, the language is still being passed on to children and about three quarters of the Hopi people speak Hopi as a native language.There are four main varieties of Hopi: First Mesa or Polacca, Mishongnovi or Toreva, Shipaulovi or Sipaulovi, and Third Mesa or Oraibi.They were identified by Benjamin Whorf, who was the first to analyse the Hopi language and who focused on the Mishongnovi variety.There is a Hopi-English dictionary edited by Emory Sekaquaptewa, and the language is promoted by the Hopi Literacy Project.Hopi has an interesting way of expressing concepts of time and space: for something that happens a long way from a speaker is described as having happened in the distant past.lthough there are relatively few speakers, the language is still being passed on to children and about three quarters of the Hopi people speak Hopi as a native language. There are four main varieties of Hopi: First Mesa or Polacca, Mishongnovi or Toreva, Shipaulovi or Sipaulovi, and Third Mesa or Oraibi.