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PNG languages dying with each generation

BY:AAP AND AG STAFF | JULY-25-2011
AUS

WHO WILL SPEAK INIAI in 2050? Or Faiwol? Moskona? Wahgi? Probably no
one, as the languages of New Guinea - the world's greatest linguistic
reservoir - are disappearing in a tide of indifference.

Yoseph Wally, an anthropologist at Cendrawasih University in Jayapura
in Papua keeps his ears open when he visits villages to hear what
language the locals are speaking.

"It's Indonesian more and more. Only the oldest people still speak in
the local dialect," he said. In some villages he visits, not a single
person can understand a word of the traditional language.

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