<font face="georgia,serif">A native language lives on young tongues<br><br>By Melissa Lampman - Kamloops This Week<br>Published: June 29, 2010 1:00 PM <br><br>R Secwépemc cw7it ri7 r setsíntens.<br><br>This means: “There are many Secwepemc songs” in the traditional language of Secwepemctsin, or Shuswap, which is the language spoken by the Secwepemc people of east-central B.C.<br>
<br>In a classroom at Ralph Bell elementary, a group of students in kindergarten to Grade 7 sit in a circle, singing the Welcome Song in Shuswap.<br><br>The students are aboriginal and non-aboriginal, but they have a common goal — to preserve a language near extinction.<br>
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