Hundreds of Bahasa Indonesia Endangered Areas

Today there are hundreds of regional languages ​​threatened with extinction. Therefore, the condition kebahasan require a serious and sustained order languages ​​still exist and are capable of supporting the cultural life of the region.
Regional languages ​​in danger of extinction due to the number of speakers a bit and only used by the older generation. In fact, the language of ethnicity in Indonesia there are speakers tingga few people, "explained Deputy Minister of Education and Culture Cultural field, while opening Wiendu Nuryanti Language Diversity Forum Asia-Europe Meeting Language Diversity Forum (ASEM) in Jakarta, Tuesday (4/9) .
According to him, such as speakers of 26 languages ​​in Sumatra, 10 languages ​​in Java and Bali, 55 languages ​​in Kalimantan, Sulawesi 58 languages, 11 language in NTB, NTT 49 languages, 51 languages ​​and 207 in Maluku languages ​​in Papua. For example, language Lengilu, Hoti language, the language of Piru, Hukumina language, language Hulung, Bonerif languages ​​and language speakers Woria it just left less than 10 people.
Therefore, further Wiendu, government efforts and ASEM forum to anticipate this problem by performing the language kondifikasi so hopefully in the future they can be enjoyed by future generations.
Other efforts being undertaken by the government of Indonesia is through the assessment, development and preservation. In the assessment process, the light Wiendu, has made mapping and identified 514 languages. In addition, the government is conducting documenting vernacular literacy and documenting folklore,? Augment
From the research that has been made known Indonesia has more than 743 languages. Of that number, 442 languages ​​have been mapped by the Development and Language Development.
He emphasized that it was likely that the number of languages, it will continue to grow because until now the research is ongoing and not yet completed. As ethnic languages ​​in other countries, the survival of regional languages ​​in Indonesia were also different, both in terms of survival and the number of speakers.
This means that among the regional languages ​​in Indonesia, there are regional language vitality (vitality) is still last a long time because it is supported by a large number of speakers.
However, there are also regional languages ​​that are threatened with extinction due to the number of speakers a bit and only used by the older generation, even in Indonesia ethnic language speakers a bit and only used by the older generation.
Director of Intra-Regional Cooperation America and Europe, Dewi M. Kusumaastuti stated there are 2034 languages ​​in Asia and 209 in European languages. This makes the Asia-Europe is home to 34 percent of the approximately 6,500 languages ​​in the world.
"However, although relatively little diversity, European languages ​​have spread around the world and used by a large population of mainly English, French and Spanish," he said.
With such a diversity of languages, may feel sad when I heard about half of these languages ​​are endangered expected in the future, he said.
When the countries of the world are increasingly connected to each other, some regional languages ​​marginalized by a commonly understood language for ease of trade and economic development. "Many countries tend to use language that is widely understood in inetrnasional market access and business center so that it can have a negative impact on the development of linguistic diversity in the country,"