Indians gather to save languages (fwd link)

[phil cash cash]

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Quoting phil cash cash :

> Indians gather to save languages
>
> By Matt O'Brien
> Contra Costa Times
> Article Launched: 06/13/2008 06:19:38 PM PDT
>
> BERKELEY — The first time Barbara Pineda came into contact with a 
> linguist, she
> was wary about what he wanted.
>
> An academic researcher from UC Berkeley was visiting her 
> grandmother's home in
> Mendocino County in the early 1960s, taking notes as her family shared words
> from their Northern Pomo language.
>
> "I thought he came to steal it," said Pineda, who was about 8 years 
> old at the
> time. "My grandmother called me over and said, 'It's OK. He's a friend.'"
>
> Pineda, 53, is now trying to salvage the endangered language that her
> grandmother helped document decades ago. She is one of dozens of California
> Indians who gathered in Berkeley from across the state this week in 
> hopes they
> can learn from the university, and from each other, how to preserve languages
> threatened with extinction.
>
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