Reviving Mendriq: A Community’s Effort to Save Their Language
In Malaysia, the Mendriq community is digitizing their language on Wiktionary, preserving it for future generations and combating language extinction.
Tag: Kelantan (state)
State in the eastern side of peninsular Malaysia, bordering Thailand.
Presence of substance used in ancient face powder leads researchers to discover gender of Nenggiri prehistoric human unearthed in Kelantan
via Malay Mail, 24 July 2023: Archaeologists uncover 14,000-year-old female skeleton in Nenggiri Valley with hematite, potentially used as face ...
Experts say native language of Mendriq Orang Asli in Kelantan could become extinct in 20 years
The Mendriq Orang Asli community in Malaysia is at risk of losing their ancestral language due to the influence of ...
Researchers say prehistoric human skeleton, artefacts unearthed at Kelantan’s Nenggiri Valley date back 14,000 years
via Malay Mail, 13 June 2023: An archaeological excavation in Malaysia's Nenggiri Valley in Kelantan led by Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia ...
Prehistoric human skeleton found in Gua Keledung Kecil, Kelantan: MOTAC
via The Sun Daily, 31 May 2023: A prehistoric human skeleton was discovered in Gua Keledung Kecil at Lembah Nenggiri, ...
Researchers unearth 6,000-year-old skeleton of teenage girl in Gua Chawan, Kelantan
via Malay Mail and other sources, 18 December 2018: Archaeologists in Malaysia announce the discovery of a Mesolithic-period skeleton in ...
Orang asli barricades taken down, leaving forest open to logging
The Malaysian Insight reports that barricades put up by the orang asli to protect their traditional lands have been taken ...
Exhibition on kris to be held in Kelantan
The Malaysian state of Kelantan is planning to hold an exhibition in June featuring the kris, or Malay dagger, as ...
Among the oldest inhabitants of Malaysia
The New Straits Times has a feature on the Orang Batek, one of the Orang Asli, or Malaysian aborigines belonging ...
A legendary royal site demolished
Bukit Marak, a hill in the northern Malaysian state of Kelantan is associated with the Puteri Saadong, one of the ...
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