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The Kon Tum mission, 1851
On 1 January 1851 a French priest reached a Bahnar village called Kon Phar, having walked in from the coast. The mission that followed produced the first written form of any of our languages, the first dictionary, the first school, and the first outside description of who lived in the highlands and where. It is the beginning of the written recor...
The schools, and the language they are not taught in
Thirty-one per cent of ethnic minority children in Vietnam reach upper secondary school, against sixty-three per cent of Kinh children. Our languages are not the language of instruction anywhere. This page sets out what is measured, what it means, and why a school is the quietest instrument in the whole programme.
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