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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><strong><span style='font-family:
"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>United States: Support Native
Languages</span></strong><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Verdana","sans-serif";
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<p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:7.5pt'><span style='font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:"Trebuchet MS","sans-serif";color:black'>Among the more than 300
original languages spoken in the United States, only 155-175 remain.
Scholars estimate that only 20 of these remaining indigenous languages are
being transmitted to native children. Seventy languages could vanish
within the next 10 years without immediate and significant funding for
tribal language programs. <br>
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<a
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funding for native language programs in the FY 2009 budget of the
Administration for Native Americans, Department of Health and Human
Services. With its historic passage of the Esther Martinez Native
American Languages Preservation Act of 2006 (P.L. 109-394), Congress recognized
the critical funding needs of native language revitalization efforts. The
FY 2008 budget included $2 million in Esther Martinez Language Preservation Act
funding, but several hundred tribes must compete for these 25-45 grants.<br>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='color:black'>~ </span>ilse<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Ilse Ackerman<br>
</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>Editor-in-chief<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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