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New program pairs elders, students in hope of restoring Tlingit language</h1></div></div></div><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><span class="" style="color:rgb(18,18,18);font-family:inherit;font-size:1.1rem;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;display:inline-block;zoom:1"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-size:1.1rem;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:1;display:inline-block;zoom:1;color:rgb(35,68,102)"><a href="http://www.alaskadispatch.com/authors/678503" class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:1;color:rgb(51,102,153);text-decoration:none">Laurel Andrews</a></span></span></span></div>
<div class="gmail_default"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline">January 26, 2014</span></div><div class="gmail_default"><span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline"><br>
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<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit">A three-year language mentorship program beginning in Southeast Alaska in August hopes to help revitalize the </span>Tlingit<span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit"> language, classified as on the edge of extinction, by pairing fluent elders with advanced learners of the language.</span></p>
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On Tuesday, <a href="http://www.sealaskaheritage.org/" target="_blank" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;color:rgb(51,102,153);text-decoration:none">Sealaska Heritage Institute</a>announced the six apprentice-mentor teams that will spend the next three years working together. Apprentices will be paired with elders in the communities of Sitka, Yakutat and Juneau, working toward fluency in the language.</p>
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