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A race to save aboriginal dialect from extinction

AP Published January 9, 2013
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The aboriginal dialect of Kanakanvu, a mountain village of Dakanua in southern Taiwan, is facing a crisis of extinction with only 10 people speaking the language. Eighty-year-old aboriginal Mu'u Ka'angena, together with a dedicated Taiwanese linguist, tries to save the dialect before it is too late. – Text and photos by AP

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