UCSC Linguistics professor receives grant to help preserve endangered language (fwd link)

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September 6, 2008

UCSC Linguistics professor receives grant to help preserve endangered language

By Scott Rappaport (831) 459-2496; srapp at ucsc.edu

UCSC professor of linguistics Sandra Chung has been awarded a grant from the
National Science Foundation for a collaborative project to help preserve the
endangered Chamorro language.

Chamorro is an Austronesian language spoken by 45,000 people in the
unincorporated U.S. territory of Guam and in the U.S. Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands.

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