BATURU, a repairman of the Manchu ethnic group from Liaoyang City, Northeast China’s Liaoning Province, has been live-streaming Manchu language lessons since 2017 via several live-streaming platforms to raise awareness for endangered minority languages, reports Beijing Youth Daily.

Batulu lives in a Manchu village, where no one else in the 800-people-village is capable of speaking the Manchu language. To save the language from extinction, he learned the written and spoken Manchu language by himself.

To reach more people, including the Manchu people about the Manchu language, he started teaching the Manchu on the live-streaming platform kuaishou.com.

His lessons contain the phonetic symbols and grammar points, commonly used words like “mother” and “uncle” in Manchu, and overviews of some folk customs of the Manchu people.

In fact, many minority languages are on the edge of extinction. Fortunately, some people have noted the fact and have started protecting them.

(SD-Agencies)