via the Sun, 10 March 2022: Malaysia professor highlighting the impending loss of many indigenous languages.
Heard of a language called Lelak? You cannot be blamed if you have not, as it is an extinct language, just like Latin.
Dean of the School of Languages, Literacies and Translation at Universiti Sains Malaysia Prof Dr Salasiah Che Lah described an “endangered language” as one that may face extinction in the future as it is not used by native speakers.
“Many languages are at risk of disappearing as the speakers of these languages die out or shift to speaking other languages. As a result, the language will be lost when it has no more native speakers and finally becomes a dead language when the last speaker dies,” she told theSun.
