{"id":5286,"date":"2026-08-16T14:47:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T14:47:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ling.news\/?p=5286"},"modified":"2026-08-16T14:47:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T14:47:16","slug":"meet-the-people-keeping-dialects-and-heritage-languages-alive-in-singapore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ling.news\/?p=5286","title":{"rendered":"Meet the people keeping dialects and heritage languages alive in Singapore"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"vlp-link-container vlp-layout-lnk-sptlght block-editor-block-list__block wp-block wp-block-visual-link-preview-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.channelnewsasia.com\/today\/ground-up\/dialect-heritage-language-preservation-hokkien-teochew-baba-malay-malayalam-6316366\" class=\"vlp-link\" title=\"Meet the people keeping dialects and heritage languages alive in Singapore\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"><\/a><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-side\"><div class=\"vlp-block-3 vlp-link-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/dam.mediacorp.sg\/image\/upload\/s--8-D9-4UT--\/c_fill,g_auto,h_676,w_1200\/fl_relative,g_south_east,l_mediacorp:cna:watermark:2021-08:cna,w_0.1\/f_auto,q_auto\/v1\/mediacorp\/cna\/image\/2026\/08\/14\/20260814-jk-uc-brandon-5a_1.jpg?itok=OmxW7Nli\" style=\"max-width: 1024px; max-height: 1024px\" \/><\/div><\/div><div class=\"vlp-layout-zone-main\"><div class=\"vlp-block-0 vlp-link-url\">www.channelnewsasia.com<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-1 vlp-link-title\">Meet the people keeping dialects and heritage languages alive in Singapore<\/div><div class=\"vlp-block-2 vlp-link-summary\">Beyond the buzz over Teochew box-office hit Dear You, some Singaporeans are determined not to let dialects and heritage languages fall out of use \u2013 by teaching, documenting and speaking them.<\/div><\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-5286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cultura","tag-english"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5286"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5287,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5286\/revisions\/5287"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ling.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}