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March 6, 2008
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China's smallest ethnic group "lost in translation"

By Rong Jiaojiao, Wu Chen, Jia Lijun

BEIJING, March 6 (Xinhua) -- Xiaohong had mixed feelings when she found her nine-year-old son more interested in learning English than the language of his own ethnic group, spoken only by 2980 people across China.

"I am happy that he is curious about the outside world so I bought him an English learning gadget, but I am also worried that he might one day lose his cultural identity since he can barely express himself in his own language now," said Xiaohong, 33, a lawmaker from Lhoba ethnic group.

Inhabited in the south of Qinghai-Tibet Plateau, Lhoba is the smallest among China's 56 ethnic groups. In ...

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