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Bianjie government pledges support for homonymous archaic language development
Third official language of the Khanate, formerly used by most of the nations millennia ago, now fights for its life
12 June 5656



In a joint press conference earlier yesterday, the ministers of the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Tourism, alongside the Ministry of Education, announced that the State Council will provide financial support for projects aimed at revitalising the language, as well as create programs and free courses for the citizens across Bianjie, in a move of the Bianjian government, hailed by linguists and cultural activists, to keep the archaic homonymous Bianjie language alive, amidst worrying reports from the independent National Educational and Cultural Organisation (NECO) on the endangerment of the formerly main language of the nation.

During the press conference, the culture minister, Fodo Aturamo, said the central government plans to allocate up to 250 million g'an over the next five to seven years, for grants on educational and cultural projects aimed at supporting language, expanding its speakers in both urban and rural settlements, as well as the more bureaucratic and scientific documentation and preservation of the language. "We are protecting the existing knowledge about the language of our ancestors that we have, while we also expand the number of speakers, and thus the culture that the language brings with it. It's not just another program; it is a responsibility and a promise. A promise to preserve our culture", said the culture minister Aturamo.

The archaic language, usually referred to homonymously as Bianjie language, was once the common language of the whole country, spoken by both elites and common folk, especially in the rural parts of the country, with its influence and historical impact still found in the cultural traditions, common names of citizens and rituals, royal or religious. Yet, following the colonial occupation of Bianjie by various Dovani empires and regimes in the past, the language has been rapidly declining, resulting in fewer than 35 thousand native speakers of the language today, mostly found in the northernmost province of Irudai.

Government programme, announced by the culture and education ministers, Aturamo and Logiya, respectively, besides the financial support for the private citizenry initiatives, will also focus on two other pillars: cooperation with the NECO, which will be producing materials, training education workers, and partnering with tertiary institutions to standardized grammar and calligraphy of the language, as it is drastically different from Kunikata and Yindalan; and the creation of the online platform, which will include official vocabularies, exclusive library texts in Bianjie language, as well as translated into Bianjie other important documents and cultural sites, aiming to normalise passive exposure for the citizens.
 


The Daily Report (日報), also known as Nippō, is a major daily newspaper based in Namušun, Bianjie.
The paper is published in both official languages in the broadsheet format and is also available online in other international languages.