Poster

Jason Wong Zhin-Ming

1102701493

"Dying Language"

Artist Statement

The Kadazandusun language, is the mother tongue of the Kadazandusun. In most wet markets, that’s where the language are also spoken to communicate amongst themselves – the consumers and the sellers. Although the language is widely known by the older generation of the Kadazandusun community, different areas of Sabah have different dialects of the language and it may be difficult for the one end of the chain to communicate to the other. It is slowly dying especially among the young generations, they don’t speak it at all.