Keeping dying languages alive (fwd link)

[Phil Cash Cash]

Here is the original link to Washington Post article
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/smithsonian-archives-preserve-lost-and-dying-languages/2014/01/17/2a2c3218-74a1-11e3-8b3f-b1666705ca3b_story.html


On Tue, Jan 28, 2014 at 9:34 AM, Phil Cash Cash <weyiiletpu at gmail.com>wrote:

> Keeping dying languages aliveSmithsonian keeps recorded voices,
> documents, more
>
> By Guy Gugliotta, Special to The Washington Post
>
> Published: January 26, 2014, 6:00 AM
>
>
> Daryl Baldwin learned about the Smithsonian's National Anthropological
> Archives when he was trying to find out more about his Native American
> heritage and the language of his tribe, the Miami of Oklahoma.
>
> He was 28 and working construction in Ohio when he came across some Miami
> words his late grandfather had written in his personal papers. Baldwin knew
> nothing of the language except some ancestral names, but the words piqued
> his interest. There were no Miami speakers left, but a friend mentioned the
> archives, an immense hoard of recorded voices, documents and other
> materials describing more than 250 languages from all over the world.
>
> The archives had been accumulating for more than 150 years, the findings
> of scholars, explorers, soldiers and travelers, and was now stored in a
> vast warehouse on a grassy campus in Suitland, Md. It included copious
> material on about 200 Native American languages, many of them endangered or
> with no remaining native speakers.
>
> Access full article below:
> http://www.columbian.com/news/2014/jan/26/keeping-dying-languages-alive/
>
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