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Tibetan schoolchildren lose fluency in native language as schools switch to Mandarin

April 18, 2020;

Reported by Lobsang Gelek for RFA’s Tibetan Service. Translated by Dorjee Damdul. Written in English by Eugene Whong. Read original news here. Children in the Tibetan Autonomous Region are losing fluency in the Tibetan language as schools in the region … Continued

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