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Saving a language</h2><p id="content_0_TopHeadTextByLine" class="byline" style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:none;font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:11px;line-height:14px;text-transform:uppercase;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<a href="http://www.thestar.com.my/Search.aspx?q=%22lee+romney%22" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;text-decoration:none;color:rgb(117,168,197)">BY LEE ROMNEY</a></p><div><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:none;font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:17px;line-height:25px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
<strong style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none">One Native American tribe is bucking worldwide trends and reviving its language.</strong></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:none;font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:17px;line-height:25px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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CAROLE Lewis throws herself into her work as if something big is at stake.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:none;font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:17px;line-height:25px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
“<em>Pa’-ah</em>,” she tells her Eureka High School class, gesturing at a bottle of water. She whips around and doodles a crooked little fish on the blackboard, hinting at the dip she’s prepared with “<em>ney-puy</em>” – salmon, key to the diet of California’s largest Native American tribe.</p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:none;font-family:Arial,Tahoma,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(68,68,68);font-size:17px;line-height:25px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">For thousands of years before Western settlers arrived, the Yurok thrived in dozens of villages along the Klamath River. By the 1990s, however, academics had predicted their language soon would be extinct. As elders passed away, the number of native speakers dropped to six.</p>
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Access full article below: </p><p style="margin:0px 0px 20px;padding:0px;border:none"><a href="http://www.thestar.com.my/Lifestyle/Features/2013/07/29/Saving-a-language.aspx">http://www.thestar.com.my/Lifestyle/Features/2013/07/29/Saving-a-language.aspx</a></p>
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