(Source: UNESCO - United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization) The Research Institute for Languages and Cultures of Asia of Mahidol University in Thailand has been awarded the prize for its programme 'Patani Malay-Thai Bi/Multilingual Education Project. (PMT-MLE)' Patani Malay is the mother tongue of a minority community of approximately one million people living in the south of Thailand. In 2004 growing fears of forced assimilation into mainstream Thai society led to violent incidents to preserve their identity. Suwilai...
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