<font><font face="georgia,serif">Published July 24, 2012, 08:28 PM<br><br>Instructors study disappearing languages at UND<br><br>By: Stephen J. Lee, Grand Forks Herald<br><br>Cathy Moser Marlett was a baby when she first came to UND’s Summer Institute of Linguistics in 1953. Her parents Ed and Becky Moser were some of the school’s first instructors.<br>
<br>The Mosers had begun learning the language of the Seri people of Mexico’s California Gulf Coast in 1951.<br><br>“When my parents went there, there were only about 215 speakers of the language, so it was a very small group,” she said Tuesday after teaching phonetics to 11 students in Merrifield Hall.<br>
<br>Cathy and her husband Steve Marlett have continued her parents’ work. The Seri now number perhaps 1,000 and are writing their own stories in their own language using a written version created by the Mosers.<br><br>Access full article below:<br>
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