LiveAndTell (fwd link)

[Phillip E Cash Cash]

Here is the URL to the page mentioned in the news article:

http://www.liveandtell.com/


Phil

On Sun, Jul 3, 2011 at 9:57 AM, Phillip E Cash Cash
<cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:
> LiveAndTell,
> A Crowdsourced Quest To Save Native American Languages
>
> BY PAUL GLADERFri Jul 1, 2011
> USA
>
> While you won't have any trouble finding a way to learn Spanish,
> French, or German in the United States, brushing up on your Lakota or
> Navajo isn't so easy.
>
> The Endangered Language Fund projects that half of the languages
> spoken on earth will disappear in the next century, and Native
> American tongues are among them. The Administration for Native
> Americans reports that when the U.S. was founded, more than 300 Native
> American languages were spoken. That number has since dropped to 175,
> and only 20 are taught to children. The rest, it says, “are classified
> as deteriorating or nearing extinction.”
>
> Access full article below:
> http://www.fastcompany.com/1764575/liveandtell-a-south-dakotans-quest-to-save-endangered-dialect
>