<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I agree. I am thankful for you, Phil. You make a difference.<div><br></div><div>Wopida Tanka.</div><div><br></div><div>Mona Smith</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><div><div>On Nov 13, 2009, at 3:40 PM, Rolland Nadjiwon wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><div>Phil...I think it is really great how you keep us informed on these kinds of issues. You have been doing so for some time now and I wanted to express my thanks for information which might not otherwise be at my disposal. Keep up the good work and thank you....<br><br>-------<br>wahjeh<br>rolland nadjiwon<br><br><br><br>phil cash cash wrote:<br><blockquote type="cite">U. conference addresses endangered languages<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">By Wendy Leonard<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Deseret News<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Published: Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009 4:43 p.m. MST<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">USA<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">In a world where more than 7,000 languages are spoken, it's hard to imagine<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">everyone speaking the same tongue – or one of only four.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">In the last 500 years, half of the world's languages have become extinct. It is<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">predicted that in the next 100 years, nearly 50 percent of the world's current<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">languages will follow suit, much like Kuku Thaypan, an Australian Aboriginal<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">language in which only one man now is fluent."It's an unspeakable tragedy,"<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">said Lyle Campbell, a University of Utah linguistics professor and director of<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">the U.'s Center for American Indian Languages. He said that of the 151 American<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Indian languages spoken in America today, only 20 of them are being taught to<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">children, which means that much of the knowledge originated in those languages<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">could be lost with the extinction of various tongues. In Utah, the Shoshone<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">language has great possibility of becoming extinct, because only the senior<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">population speaks it.<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">Access full article below:<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><a href="http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705344021/U-conference-addresses-endangered-languages.html">http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705344021/U-conference-addresses-endangered-languages.html</a><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"><br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite"> <br></blockquote></div></blockquote></div><br><div apple-content-edited="true"> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: auto; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; 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