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People Speak Modern: There are many minorities that speak non-Chinese languages that belong neither to the Altaic nor the Sino-Tibetan group. These include the 14,000 Tajiks of southwestern Sinkiang, who speak an Iranic language of the Indo-European group, and the Wa and Puman people who speak an Austroasian language. The Wa and Puman are fierce tribesmen who live on both sides of the Yiinnan-Burma border and number only about 100,000. The Austronesian or Ma-layo-Polynesian language is also spoken in China by various groups, predominantly in Taiwan.
Except for few wide avenues, the city presents a netwo of narrow winding streets. The houses are brick with roofs of red tiles; the older buil ings reflect architectural influences from Russ The city has adequate hotels, many garages, large jute mill, and many smaller industrii Most of the city people speak modern Persia but Gilaki, a local dialect, is widely used in t vicinity.
Dramatization of various kinds stimulates language development. Children like to take parts and read the conversation in stories. Role-playing, or the sociodrama, in which children speak as they think the characters they are representing would speak, has value for language development as well as for mental hygiene.
Effective speech is encouraged by an audience situation. A child can readily see the class lose interest when he fails to make his ideas clear. To talk in order to cause other people to like something, do something, 01 learn something is the strongest motive for effective speaking.
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