The research found 65% of those surveyed thought more should be done to promote Gaelic in Scotland and 81% felt it was important Gaelic language traditions were not lost.

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He invented a language, traditions and an entire culture that nearly everyone he met believed true.

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Vietnam may have been divided between North and South, but it encompassed an ancient culture with common language and traditions.

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Moldova shares a language and cultural traditions with Romania.

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The two nations share no common language, and as for Islamic traditions, there is a deep divide.

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With assistance from UNESCO, the Education Ministry of the Republic of Sakha (Yakutia) and the Institute of the Indigenous Peoples of the North of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences undertook to promote the transmission of Yukagir oral traditions to youth and digitize the language and cultural materials, facilitating both transmission and preservation.

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Even today local traditions and Siwi, the local Berber language, dominate.

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Religious traditions are repositories of immensely moving narratives, language that can be used for either good or evil.

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