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Sabatier, the oath of 1926 and the Rhade law code
For thirteen years a French administrator named Léopold Sabatier governed Darlac on the principle that the land belonged to the Rhade and that outsiders should be kept off it. He set up a court that judged by Rhade law, a school that taught in Rhade, and on January 1, 1926, an oath-taking assembly of the chiefs. The same year he was removed, and...
The Rhade (Êđê)
The Rhade are the people of the Darlac plateau, the country around Buôn Ma Thuột. They speak a Chamic language, related to Cham and more distantly to Malay; they trace descent through women; and they gave the Dega movement many of its leaders, from Y Bham Enuol onward. This is one of a series of pages on the peoples of the highlands.
Writing our languages
Our languages were spoken for thousands of years before any of them was written. Between 1861 and the 1970s, missionaries, a French administrator, American linguists and our own teachers put them into the Latin alphabet. Each language got its own spelling, at a different time, for a different reason. Governments have since banned, changed and re...
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