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by Jalelah Abu Baker
YOUNG Singaporeans are not as multilingual as their parents' and grandparents' generations, a symposium was told on Thursday.
Said Dr Ng Bee Chin, Acting Head of the Nanyang Technological University's Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies: 'Although we are still multilingual, 40 years ago, we were even more multilingual. Young children are not speaking some of these languages anymore. 'All it takes is one generation for a language to die.'
Dr Ng was speaking at the Language and Diversity Symposium, hosted by NTU's Centre for Liberal Arts and Social Sciences and Division of Linguistics and Multilingual Studies, which was attended by more than 100 students, academics and international speakers.
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