Scholar Who Documented Endangered Cambodian Indigenous Language
Gains Recognition
Sylvain Vogel, a native French and German speaker who grew up in
the Alsace-Lorraine region of France, has written and published
four books about Bunong.
WASHINGTON DC —
The stoic professor taught Sanskrit and linguistics some 20 years
ago to students who became Cambodia’s most accomplished linguists.
He spent months in Cambodia’s most sparsely-populated province,
over a period of years, to document one of the country’s minority
languages, Bunong.
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Voice of America Cambodia
December 15, 2017
Experts, Vietnam Veterans to Meet Over Montagnards
Some 15,000 Montagnards were resettled in the 1990s and 2000s in
North Carolina.
WASHINGTON DC —
Experts on indigenous minorities and Vietnam War veterans will
meet in North Carolina early next year to discuss challenges
facing the Montagnard highland community in the United States and
Southeast Asia.
The one-day conference will be held Feb. 3 at the University of
North Carolina-Wilmington in Wilmington N.C., organizers said.
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