Preservation of Sarawak Ethnic Languages : The Sarawak Language Technology (SaL 1) Initiative

• Main Authors: Yoe, Alvin W., Saee, Suhaila, Sarah, Flora, Jali, Nurfauza, Suriati, Khartini, Mit, Edwin, Ting, Su Hie, Wilfred, Jennifer, Ng, Giap Weng
• Format: Proceeding
• Language: English
• Published: 2008
• Subjects: P Philology. Linguistics
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/813/7/Preservation%20of%20Sarawak.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/813/
• Institution: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak

The population of speakers of indigenous languages all over the world is decreasing. This drop in numbers is due to the pressures of dominant global languages (such as English which is the lingua franca of international commerce, research, and the Internet), rural-urban migration, and exogamy (inter...