Deaths in the Family
Wednesday, March 14, 2012
Even languages have their own lives. Of 756 regional languages in Indonesianot including Bahasa Indonesia itself30 percent are in danger of extinction. This is the conclusion of the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI) from its research in eastern Indonesia. The LIPI Societal and Cultural Research team was sent to Alor, East Nusa Tenggara and several islands in Maluku, where it found that several languages had almost vanished. These were defin
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