CSUF linguistics professor to study six endangered languages in Myanmar

The son of a Bible translator, Kenneth Van Bik was introduced to the power of language at an early age.
“My father spent about 16 years translating the Bible into Hakha Lai, so my interest in linguistics really began at the family dinner table,” said the Cal State Fullerton assistant professor of linguistics. “What excites me about this field is finding how people are connected by investigating how languages are related and not related.”
With nearly two decades of linguis