Namibia: First Books in !kung San Language

CHILDREN of the marginalised San communities who speak the ancient !Kung language can for the first time read stories in their mother tongue after the first printed readers were launched at a remote San school at Mangetti Dune east of Grootfontein last month.

David Bjarnason, project manager of the Icelandic International Development Agency (Iceida), which supported the writing and printing of the !Kung storybooks, said his nation only had 500 000 people and if the Icelandic language was lost one day due to globalisation, it would be sad.

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