<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; line-height: 16px; "><font face="Verdana" size="3" style="font: 11.0px Verdana">Language on life support<br> Dozens of First Nations tongues just a generation from extinction<br> <br> Adam McDowell, National Post <br> Published: Saturday, January 24, 2009<br> <br> The clock on the kitchen wall at the Moraviantown Reserve seniors' centre loudly clicks away the seconds as Velma Noah waits to see if any of the few remaining speakers of a vanishing language can remember the word for "beet."<br> <br> <a href="http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1213150"><font color="#00339a" style="color: #00339a">http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1213150</font></a></font></div></body></html>