A Quest Within : Part 2

continue …..from A Quest Within: part 1.

How old are you? Who are you? How close is u with the elders? How close is u with ur culture. Can u speak ur mother tongue language? If not then u have increase the extinction rate of ur own mother tongue.

Thru the data statistic claimed by UNESCO shows that 10 Mother-tongue langue disappear each year. And according to The Entnologue, the database of all the languages spoken in the world claim that 417 languages are spoken by so few people that they are in the final stages of becoming extinct.

So what do you think about it? How will you react?

As we know Murut population figure is between “50K-100K”. And how many ppl can speak out the language? The actual percentage is not yet known but the figure could be lesser year by year. And how long it could survive? Well it might be 50 years from now and during that time the languages is just an old language that could be spoken by less that 5 percent of the Murut population.

If we have a look on the current situation and condition, the language is not widely spoken at home. Too much reason can be given, and all the reason has it’s logically interpretation by many.

I don’t speak language myself very well but it is not wrong for me to write something about it.

To be continue….