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Promoting the beauty of traditional languages (with video)</h1></div><div class="" style="font-size:1px;font-family:arial,verdana,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif;clear:both;height:1px;overflow:hidden;color:rgb(0,0,0)">
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<span class="" style="font-family:arial;text-transform:uppercase;font-weight:bold;padding:0px 15px 5px 0px">BY KERRY BENJOE, LEADER-POST</span> <span class="" style="font-family:arial;color:rgb(153,153,153);text-transform:uppercase;padding:0px 15px 5px 0px">JANUARY 16, 2014</span></div>
<p style="font-size:14px;width:auto;line-height:22px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">REGINA — There is beauty in language, say language lovers.</p><p style="font-size:14px;width:auto;line-height:22px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">
On Thursday, the First Nations University of Canada hosted a Visual Language Conference to coincide with a new art exhibit called Endangered Alphabets.</p><p style="font-size:14px;width:auto;line-height:22px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">
Tim Brooks, creator of the exhibit, said the idea for the 14-piece collection grew out an interest in endangered languages from around the world.</p><p style="font-size:14px;width:auto;line-height:22px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">
“I came across a website that has all of the world’s writing systems and I was blown away,” he said. “First of all, I never heard of most of them and I am a well-travelled guy. Second thing was, to look at, they were just visually extraordinary. Some of them were so beautiful and some of them were so strange.”</p>
<p style="font-size:14px;width:auto;line-height:22px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:arial,verdana,'Lucida Grande',sans-serif">Access full article below: </p><div><a href="http://www.leaderpost.com/life/Promoting+beauty+traditional+languages+with+video/9397219/story.html">http://www.leaderpost.com/life/Promoting+beauty+traditional+languages+with+video/9397219/story.html</a><br>
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