Kota Kinabalu: The Kadazandusun language is being taught in some Sabah schools and a few institutions of higher learning and the efforts of community and government leaders will ensure it will not go extinct.

Former Chief Minister cum-Federal minister Tan Sri Bernard Dompok said this at the recent 17th virtual Borneo Forum themed ‘Revival of Indigenous Culture’.

 “I found that there are some 7,100 languages in the world today. Out of that, only about 3,000 or some 40 per cent of these languages are going into dangerous territory. Unesco classifies such conditions as 1. Vulnerable, 2. Endangered, 3. Severely endangered, 4. Critically endangered, 5. Extinct,” he said.