Unknown language discovered in Southeast Asia
February 6, 2018, Lund University
A previously unknown language has been found in the Malay Peninsula by linguists from Lund University in Sweden. The language has been given the name Jedek.
"Documentation of endangered minority languages such as Jedek is important, as it provides new insights into human cognition and culture", says Joanne Yager, doctoral student at Lund University.
"Jedek is not a language spoken by an unknown tribe in the jungle, as you would perhaps imagine, but in a village previously studied by anthropologists. As linguists, we had a different set of questions and found something that the anthropologists missed", says Niclas Burenhult, Associate Professor of General Linguistics at Lund University, who collected the first linguistic material from Jedek speakers.
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