Hundreds of regional endangered languages

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Hundreds of local languages in Indonesia are now endangered because rarely used.

"There are hundreds of languages that were previously developed in a number of areas in Indonesia are now endangered existence," said team member Mapping Language Regional Language Center, Prof. Dr. Kisyani Laksono in Surabaya, Sunday (5 / 4).

In October 2008 the Regional Center for Mapping Language English successfully map 442 local languages. "However, hundreds of others to be difficult now," he said.

Hundreds of local languages that are most endangered are in Papua and Maluku, as the result of mapping Mapping Language Regional Language Center during the year 2008.

"Some of the language area that is near extinction average penuturnya live one to two people. That was already elderly so wretched to be developed," he said.

However, the word Kisyani Team, Mapping Language Regional Language Center will still be doing the mapping for the possibility of approaching the local language extinction can be developed more.

"Of course we will also involve community leaders to encourage the development of local languages," said the Great Teacher Language and Linguistics Faculty of Arts at the University of Surabaya.

Prior to the dive site, the Language Mapping Regional Language Center has been studying some of the history of literature and folklore as a reference the existence of a local language.

In the world, thousands of languages are also endangered, both grown in the country and in developed countries, because it decreases the user language.

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