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<p style="list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-size:11px"><b style="list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none">The Huffington Post B.C.</b>  |  By <a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/jesse-ferreras" rel="author" style="list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;color:rgb(153,153,153);outline:none;text-decoration:none">Jesse Ferreras</a> </p>
<p style="list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-size:11px">Posted: <span style="list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none">11/30/2012 5:27 am EST</span> Updated: <span style="list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none">11/30/2012 12:20 pm EST</span><span class="posted-and-updated" style="list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;display:block"><span style="list-style:none;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none"><br>
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The Nuxalk word for "rock" is spoken the way it sounds, like feet dragging over a rocky riverbed. When Clyde Tallio says it, he has to conjure saliva from the back of his throat and splash it against the back of his teeth to make it sound right. The word seems impossible to spell out in English.</p>
<p style="list-style:none;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:none;line-height:21px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:15px;font-family:Georgia,Century,Times,serif">"Our language is formed because of the environment we live in," Tallio explains. "The English language doesn't reflect that environment and it doesn't reflect the teachings and the spirituality of the land."</p>
<p style="list-style:none;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:none;line-height:21px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:15px;font-family:Georgia,Century,Times,serif">That the 25-year-old from Bella Coola, B.C. can pronounce the word at all is impressive enough, but what's even more impressive is that the word is being spoken at all.</p>
<p style="list-style:none;margin:0px 0px 15px;padding:0px;border:none;line-height:21px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:15px;font-family:Georgia,Century,Times,serif">Tallio is part of a movement of young aboriginals who are working to save their traditional tongues, fighting a tide that threatens to kill the languages off for good.</p>
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Access full article below: </p><div><a href="http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/11/30/aboriginal-language-native-gen-y-bc-millenial_n_2019250.html">http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/2012/11/30/aboriginal-language-native-gen-y-bc-millenial_n_2019250.html</a></div>
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