Scientist lives with endangered tribe to save disappearing language (fwd link)

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Scientist lives with endangered tribe to save disappearing language

By Thair Shaikh, CNN
November 5, 2010 12:24 p.m. EDT

Stephen Pax Leonard is living with the Inughuit in Greenland

London, England (CNN) -- As inhospitable environments go, it doesn't
get much trickier than living near the Arctic Circle where the
temperature can plummet to minus 40 degrees Celsius in the permanent
winter darkness and the diet consists of walrus and whale blubber.

But this is where a British adventurer has been living for the last
three months with an endangered tribe so that he can record their
rapidly disappearing culture and language.

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