Kota Kinabalu: Most of Sabah indigenous languages are deemed endangered.
Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) Malaysia Executive Director Dr Timothy Philips disclosed that this was partly because some indigenous groups are small in size and there’s also a break in language transmission to the next generation.
Sabah has more than 40 indigenous groups.
Without naming which indigenous languages are extinct, Philips explained that the indigenous languages will eventually disappear if parents stop speaking them to their children.
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The union between UMS and SIL Malaysia is an effort to conserve Sabah indigenous languages so that the next generation has access to the languages.
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