[Four #native #languages spoken by #tribes in #Sarawak are now #extinct according to the national literary & cultural agency Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
Sarawak director, Abang Haliman Abang Julai, said that according to #researchers the #Seru , #Pegu , #Bliun & #Lelak languages were now no longer in use.]

https://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2023/03/19/four-tribal-languages-in-sarawak-go-extinct

#linguistics #IndigenousLanguage #NativeLanguage #TribalLanguage #LanguagePreservation #LostLanguages #Malaysia #AsianMastodon #Asian #GlobalSouth #LostCulture #Asia

‘Our identity lies in these songs’: saving the music of India’s Biate | Indigenous peoples | The Guardian

#LostLanguages #WorldMusic

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jan/03/forgotten-songs-collective-saving-music-biate-indian-hill-tribe-global-audience

#archeology #manuscripts #lostlanguages

Saint Catherine’s Monastery, a sacred Christian site nestled in the shadow of Mount Sinai, is home to one of the world’s oldest continuously used libraries. Thousands of manuscripts and books are kept there—some of which contain hidden treasures....

....Other hidden texts were written in a defunct dialect known as Christian Palestinian Aramaic, a mix of Syriac and Greek, which was discontinued in the 13th century only to be rediscovered by scholars in the 18th century. “This was an entire community of people who had a literature, art, and spirituality,” Phelps tells Gray. “Almost all of that has been lost, yet their cultural DNA exists in our culture today. These palimpsest texts are giving them a voice again and letting us learn about how they contributed to who we are today.”

Read more here:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/long-lost-languages-found-manuscripts-egyptian-monastery-180964698/