Jedek: Previously Unidentified Language Found By Swedish Linguists In in Southeast Asia | IELTS, ESP, EAP and CALL | Scoop.it
A previously unidentified language has been found by linguists from the Lund University in Sweden, during their work in the Malay Peninsula. The language has been given the name JEDEK and represents the Aslian group of languages within the Austroasiatic language family. “Jedek is not a language spoken by an unknown tribe in the jungle, as you would perhaps imagine, but in a village previously studied by anthropologists,” said Niclas Burenhult, Associate Professor of General Linguistics at Lund University, who collected the first linguistic material from Jedek speakers.