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<strong>Jennifer Pagliaro</strong> <br><span style="font-size:11px;color:rgb(102,102,102)">Staff Reporter</span> <br></div><a class="tdCommentBubbleFull" href="http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/1276860--native-communities-fight-to-keep-their-language-alive#comments" style="color:rgb(0,102,164);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;text-decoration:none;background-image:url(http://static.star3.topscms.com/content/images/icoComment.gif);background-color:transparent;padding-left:18px;float:left;padding-right:13px;padding-top:5px">1 Comments</a><div class="fb-like  fb_edge_widget_with_comment fb_iframe_widget" style="color:rgb(52,52,52);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:13px;margin:0px 0px 17px;padding:0px;float:left;width:495px;display:inline-block">
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</div><div class="tdArticleBody" style="margin:0px;padding:5px 0px 0px"><p style="color:rgb(52,52,52);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;margin:0px 0px 21px;padding:0px;line-height:21px">In the largest room of a tiny, defunct schoolhouse off a winding road below Grand River just outside the Six Nations reserve, Leroy Hill tries to organize the dozens of rainbow-coloured sticky notes in front of him.</p>
<p style="color:rgb(52,52,52);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;margin:0px 0px 21px;padding:0px;line-height:21px">Each has a piece of one of the region’s Iroquoian languages on it — the ones he’s trying to save. He purposefully stacks them on top of each other in an order unknown to strangers.</p>
<p style="color:rgb(52,52,52);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;margin:0px 0px 21px;padding:0px;line-height:21px">Data from the 2011 census released by Statistics Canada on Wednesday shows the number of native speakers of Canada’s 60 aboriginal languages is decreasing overall. But it also indicates that fluency in certain language families is rising, as is the number of people learning them as a second language.</p>
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