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<p>High Country News</p>
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<p>Most native tongues of the West are all but lost</p>
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<p>Last February, 103-year-old Hazel Simpson of Port Angeles, Washington, died. This was notable not only because of her age, but because she was the last Native speaker of Klallam, the language of the S’Klallam Tribe of the Olympic Peninsula.</p>
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<p>The S’Klallams have worked hard over the last decade to revitalize their language, publishing a dictionary and starting a program to teach Klallam as a second language to schoolchildren on the Elwha Reservation. But something irreplaceable died along with
Simpson, the last living person to learn Klallam at home and speak it as a primary language.</p>
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<p>Full story:<br>
<a href="http://www.hcn.org/issues/47.4/most-native-tongues-of-the-west-are-all-but-lost">http://www.hcn.org/issues/47.4/most-native-tongues-of-the-west-are-all-but-lost</a></p>
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