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<span class="" style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(34,34,34);line-height:38px">State announces tribal language preservation efforts</span></h1><p class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;line-height:16px;color:rgb(102,102,102)">
Posted: <span class="" title="2013-12-07T07:15:00-07:00" style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px">Saturday, December 7, 2013 7:15 am</span></p><p class="" style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:11px;outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 10px;line-height:16px;font-weight:bold;color:rgb(102,102,102)">
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HELENA – Imagine browsing through your smartphone’s “App Store” and being able to download a talking dictionary that includes phrases such as “Shoo daa chii?” (“How are you?” in Apsáalooke) or “Ginnehayen” (“Thank you” in Aa Nii).</p>
</span><span class="" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:12px;outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px"><p style="outline:0px;margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 18px;line-height:15px">Well, thanks to the start of a comprehensive effort to preserve Indian languages in Montana, you may soon be able to do just that.</p>
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