Preserving Ethnic Languages
Monday, July 9, 2018
Resurrecting Dying Tongues
The North Maluku provincial government and language agency are working hard to preserve the region's ethnic languages by including them in local school curricula, training teachers and compiling dictionaries.
TWO months ago, elementary school students in the village of Gamlamo, Western Halmahera, North Maluku, seemed happy as they sang a traditional Sahu song in the schoolyard. Once in a while, they would shake hands a
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