<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><h1 style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:30px">Researcher documents indigenous language in danger of extinction</h1>
<h5 class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12px;font-weight:normal;line-height:16px">7 hours ago by Susan Bell</h5><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">
<span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px">Deep in the Amazon, Evangeline Alva had just awoken from a nap when she heard her first words in Desano.</span><br style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:14px">
<br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 17px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;line-height:1.4">"A man said to me 'Good morning, sleepy head,' " the linguistics major recalled of her research trip to the indigenous town of São Gabriel da Cachoeira in the Brazilian Amazon.</p>
<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 17px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:14px;line-height:1.4">"He spoke first in Portuguese, which I understood, and then repeated the greeting in Desano. At first I was totally perplexed. Desano is incredibly difficult to understand because it's a nasal <a href="http://phys.org/tags/language/" rel="tag" class="" style="color:rgb(49,61,87);outline:0px">language</a> and speakers tend to talk very quietly, mumbling under their breath."</p>
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