Patrick Cox

Patrick Cox

Patrick Cox runs The World's language desk. He reports and edits stories about the globalization of English, the bilingual brain, translation technology and more. He also hosts The World's podcast on language, The World in Words.

Bringing Back Nepal’s Minority Languages

January 7, 2013 ⋅ Post a comment
Indigenous Newa girls in Kathmandu, Nepal (Reuters/Gopal Chitrakar)

Indigenous Newa girls in Kathmandu, Nepal (Reuters/Gopal Chitrakar)

Linguist Mark Turin returns to Nepal, where he learned and documented the Thangmi language. Spoken by 30,000 people, Thangmi has many unique expressions but it is imperiled. The Nepalese government is trying to protect minority languages by introducing them into schools, but it may be too late: the children of many Thangmi speakers are choosing to speak more mainstream languages.

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