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All languages, dialects and colloquial expressions in our country are being documented by the government to protect them for generations to come, says Datuk Aaron Ago Dagang.

The National Unity Minister said creating a database of the hundreds of languages in Malaysia - from Orang Asli languages to the various state Malay dialects - is the first of such effort of this scale.

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00:04Okay, under the Constitution of Bahasa Malaysia is a national language, but all other languages
00:15are encouraged to be used. Nobody stopped us to use them. But the problem is automatically
00:19when we talk to our friends, we use Bahasa Misairat. Because sometimes we don't know
00:24whether it's Chinese or Indian, but everybody knows that everybody speaks Bahasa.
00:32I've seen a lot of dictionary. Most of the languages have their own dictionary already.
00:38But I think those are quite well documented. For example, if you look at these different
00:45languages, documentation in our archive, Aqib, Jabatan Aqib, they should have it there.
00:53But as I said, the usage is not there, because there are not many people that can speak or
01:02using the minority languages, like Shetty, all kinds of languages that we have, except
01:09their own group. For us in the Kemenchan, we have been very proactive. I remember last year,
01:16I think, when we did this colloquial study last year?
01:202024. 2024. So on our part, we have been doing, we completed our colloquial study for all languages,
01:28I think, for all, you know, from Sabah, right out of all, eh? Except the documentation now,
01:32we are doing the documentation now. It's a very big writing as well as verbally speaking. How we pronounce it,
01:39how we speak among our staff. This is... This is ongoing right now? We have completed.
01:46We have completed. We have completed, right?
01:47Dokumentation now. Dokumentation now. Oh, now, documentation. All the languages, the English
01:52about. All. All state.
01:54Dokumentation now.
01:54Dr. Florath, for that study, right, that you mentioned in 2024 on the colloquial languages and everything,
02:00what is going to happen at the end of this, like, is it just to preserve the languages or what?
02:05Yeah, yeah, yeah. That's part of that, yes. What's the aim for?
02:07In... In Robert Thames as well as in video. How to speak it.
02:12Yeah, everything is there. You just like your dictionary before. But the dictionary might call that,
02:18when you might combine these two, it will cover.
02:20but this is just in booklet form, but here we have a paper tape as well, I will speak it.
02:31So that's why it's done by Akif, they're going to preserve it.
02:35But because any student is the only one to study all the different legalities,
02:41they can go to study in Akif.
02:44When do you think it will be accessible for the public like you mentioned?
02:48I'm not sure yet, but it will be accessible.
02:53Definitely, we want to do it, but because it's a very big volume, you know.
02:57Very big volume.
03:00Even if you do 50% of the 200 language, it will be 100.
03:05Would the ministry consider any efforts to improve museum so that ethnic groups can get a better understanding of each
03:12other?
03:13Yeah.
03:14Actually, the museum is, you see we have, under Kermitjallu have museum with Akif, and of course, Papusakaan Library.
03:23These are the very rightful institutions placed under Papaduan Unity, because Unity comes from history.
03:33And the history is a cat in Akif, and the artifact in museum, and of course, library.
03:45That's why the role of this tree, when it comes to talking about unity, harmony, other asas kepada this ministry.
03:57So, when we talk about museum, of course, museum, Akif, library, these are the very basic institutions that should fall
04:05under this Kermitjallu.
04:08And when you ask about digital transformation, because that is the end thing now.
04:14I think today we're talking about data center, a very big business industry now, data center.
04:21We must have that, because anything that we need to do in the future would be based on AI and
04:26data center.
04:27And the same for museum, but unfortunately, unfortunately, we have been quite slow in digitizing our artifacts, our documents.
04:39But we are so thankful to the government, because they're giving a few million each to library, museum, to get
04:48ourselves digitized.
04:50For your understanding, also, we have quite a bit of museum. We have 232 museums throughout the country.
04:57But only 22 are under the Department of Museum, which is under us directly.
05:02And the rest are a lot of private museums.
05:04So, thank you.
05:05All right.
05:15You
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