Sabah's Ethnic Languages Facing Extinction (fwd link)

Tue Dec 16 15:09:23 UTC 2008

December 16, 2008 18:44 PM
Malaysia

Sabah's Ethnic Languages Facing Extinction

KOTA KINABALU, Dec 16 (Bernama) -- Sabah's ethnic languages are facing
extinction due to the dwindling number of speakers, said Assistant Tourism,
Culture and Environment Minister Bolkiah Ismail.

He said that the survival of a language depend on its number of speakers and not
the ethnic population.

"In this globalisation era, language extinction and the conquest of a dominant
language is a global phenomenon.

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