Jawi at risk of extinction


KUALA LUMPUR: A Korean expert in Jawi has expressed concern that the script is increasingly being forgotten in Malaysia and may become extinct.

“Malaysia has to educate the young generation in the Jawi script,” said Prof Dr Kang Kyoung Seok of the Pusan University of Foreign Studies.

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