Media: BBC News: China's Women-only Lang Under Threat
| Submitter: |
Michael Johnstone
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| Submitter Email: | mjj1000@hermes.cam.ac.uk |
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Dear all, The BBC news website has a short report on a $1m effort to preserve a language "spoken only by elder women of the Yao ethnic group in Hunan province. Some linguists say the language may be one of the oldest in the world." http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/asia-pacific/newsid_1937000/1937023.stm Michael Johnstone </body> |
| Issue Number: | 13.1080 |
| Date Posted: | April 18, 2002 |
