Reviving a dying language on South Korea’s Jeju island

Community tries to keep ancient dialect alive as population shrinks and ages.

The isolated islanders of Jeju in South Korea developed their own distinct dialect over time, but that language is now threatened by a dwindling population and ageing speakers.

But the local government has now come up with a number of schemes that just might work, aimed at injecting new life into an old way of speaking.

Al Jazeera’s Rob McBride reports from Jeju Island, South Korea.