Indonesian Languages Dying Out
December 15, 2011
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The decline of indigenous languages in Papua had nothing whatsoever to do with globalization. The answer is more likely to be found in the destructive policies pursued by the Indonesian military toward Papuans, over the past 40 years. This is yet another example of the oppression and disintegration of papuan society that has been taking place for so long. When will it all change !!
This is a sad result of globalization. Indonesia should do the best to preserve diversity of culture and language. This is what makes indonsia such an interseting country.
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Indonesia’s remarkable linguistic diversity, which has already declined by around 90 percent, is at great risk of even more losses, a researcher says.
Abdul Rachman Patji, head of social and cultural research at the Indonesian Institute of Sciences (LIPI), said on Wednesday that around 169 languages in the archipelago were in danger of becoming extinct.
The cluster most at risk, he said, is the Non-Austronesian group, whose member languages are spoken primarily in the eastern islands including Papua, by far the most linguistically diverse place on earth.
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