Creating written Tsilhqut ’in language a life’sjourney (fwd link)

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WILLIAMS LAKE TRIBUNE

Creating written Tsilhqut’in language a life’s journey

By Gaeil Farrar - Williams Lake Tribune
Published: July 30, 2009 8:00 AM

Over the past 30-plus years Dr. Eung-Do (Ed) Cook has helped to create
orthographies for four First Nations languages that existed only as oral
languages.

The four oral languages he has given written form include three Northern
Athabaskan languages, namely Tsilhqut’in (Chilcotin), Tsúut’ina (Sarcee), and
Dëne Suˆ¬iné (Chipewyan), and Northern Stoney (which belongs to the Siouan
language family).

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