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A Doukhobor festival in Castlegar, British Columbia. For hundreds of years, the Doukhobors' oral cultural was enshrined in songs and prayers.

Born in Canada, they sing in the Russian dialect of their grandparents

Culture

The Doukhobors emigrated to Canada in the early 1900s after becoming outcasts in Russian society. They no longer use their Russian dialect, except when they sing.

Honduran musician Aurelio Martinez calls his latest album "pure Garifuna."

Music is a ‘weapon to make change’ for this Garifuna guitar player and activist

Music
Gu Hangyu, sits with his grandmother Wang Yufang, at her home on Chongming Island near Shanghai. She speaks the Chongming dialect, but not standard Chinese.

Hundreds of millions of Chinese stubbornly resist speaking the ‘common tongue’

Development & Education
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