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<DIV>Hello. </DIV>
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<DIV>In the middle of these devastating assaults on Native languages, laws that
say classes must be taught in English, No [Rich] child left behind. . . and so
on, I have what I think is an important question to ask, especially for people
working on revitalization. </DIV>
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<DIV>Do your languages have words for science? </DIV>
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<DIV>I have been looking through my dictionaries (Young and Morgan's Colloquial
Navajo, Perry's Western Apache Dictionary, Bray's version of the Western
Apache-English Dictionary, Toluwa and Hupa]. I have a small set of really basic
words: add, subtract, multiply, divide, circle, square, triangle, measure,
count, repeat, rhythm, angle, line, cloud, mountain, rain. </DIV>
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<DIV>Most of the languages have recorded words for circle, mountain, and rain.
Many have words for cloud, although Toluwa, in the Pacific Northwest, and with
words for fog, don't have one listed for "cloud". </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>So, my really important question: Do Your Languages have these words? Some?
</DIV>
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<DIV>You don't have to send me what they are, unless you would enjoy engaging
with them. But I would like to know if they exist. </DIV>
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<DIV>I am convinced that Powell created a limited, and somewhat pernicious, view
of the people who lived here originally with his prescriptive Introduction to
the Study of Indian Languages: Words, phrases and sentences to be collected.
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<DIV>I am also convinced that without this narrow and exclusive view, some, of
not all, of the language issues that we have today, particularly with regard to
languages which may be used in schools for teaching, would not exist. </DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>The question arose because I am looking at geometric patterns at Three
Rivers Petroglyphs. The patterns show up in pottery designs in 1100-1300 ad. I
wondered if people had conceptualized these forms linguistically. </DIV>
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<DIV>Thanks in advance for your help. </DIV>
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<DIV>Mia Kalish</DIV>
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<DIV>PS: Thanks for that information on grants, Andre. Wouldn't this be just a
Perfect Project!</DIV>
<DIV> </DIV>
<DIV>"Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations
which we can perform without thinking about them. Alfred North
Whitehead</DIV>
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<DIV>Mia Kalish, M.A. <BR>PhD Student, Computer Science<BR>Tularosa, New Mexico
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