The rise and fall of languages and dialects


THE Sunday Star on Dec 3 had two interesting articles on one page - “Fearing the death of a dialect” and “Sway of the Chinese language”.

Wong Chun Wai said in his column that he was troubled the Hokkien dialect in Penang is no more spoken as much as it was.

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Opinion , dialect , hokkien , penang , mandarin

   

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