Mandaya Indigenous Peoples Seek to Preserve Their Language through a Working Orthography
Virtual Roundtable Discussion on Mandaya Working Orthography. An Indigenous Navigator Initiative through Tebtebba with funding support from the European Union.
“Walang wika, walang kultura, ang mababa ang classification kaysa sa iba (No language, no culture, is lower in classification as compared to others) … Let’s decolonize our mindset that there is a superior and inferior culture.”
Allan G. Farnazo, Department of Education (DepEd) Field Office (FO) XI Regional Director, emphasized the need to eradicate the general thought that some languages or cultures are better than the others during the Mandaya Working Orthography Virtual Roundtable Discussion on 21 August 2021.
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