Japan: Safeguarding a mother tongue and mother nature

adminMay 12, 2024September 20, 202408 mins

Even though both Nami and Tomoyuki were born on Okinoerabu Island (currently home to only 12,000 inhabitants), neither learned to speak Shimamuni – a local variety of the Kunigami language – fluently as children. Kunigami was added to UNESCO’s Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger in 2009 and classified as “definitely endangered” to raise…

Indian Prime Minister Modi’s tongue slipped

adminAugust 26, 2023September 15, 202402 mins

Chandrayaan 3 landed on the moon or on China? China got on the nerves of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s tongue slipped, Modi told the South African President that Chandrayaan landed on the southern part of China for the first time. The President of South Africa was also surprised to…