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 ...
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Assamese monks on mission to save rare culture and language
via Frontline, 25 March 2023: The Tai Phake community in Assam are trying to bring their mother tongue back from ...
[Paper] Is Malayo-Polynesian a primary branch of Austronesian? : A view from morphosyntax
via Diachronica, 16 May 2022: This paper by Chen et al. takes a look at the linguistic evidence for the ...
[Talk] Mirror or compass? Sleuthing the histories of Macassan words in Northern Australia
Readers may be interested in this webinar by Nicholas Evans on pre-colonial contact between Australia and Indonesia happening on March ...
Danger of minority languages going extinct
via the Sun, 10 March 2022: Malaysia professor highlighting the impending loss of many indigenous languages.
[Obituary] In Memoriam: Robert Blust, 1940-2022
The Taiwan Studies Programme at the University of Nottingham has a special issue for the late Robert Blust, who passed ...
What are Austronesian languages?
via The National, 03 December 2021: The Austronesian-speaking peoples and their dispersal across Southeast Asia from a Papua New Guinea ...
Mapping Origins of Hawaiian Language Reveals New Theory on Polynesian Migration to Hawaiʻi
via Hawai'i Public Radio, 08 September 2021: In the Pacific Ocean, new research points to the origin of the Hawaian ...
This man can read and write 30 ancient Indonesian scripts, some as old as 500 years
via Channel NewsAsia, 06 March 2021: A young man and his talent for languages.
[Talk] Old Thai and the Arrival of Thai in Central Thailand
via the Cornell Southeast Asia Program: Readers may be interested in this talk by Pittayawat Pittayaporn on 12 February 2021. ...
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