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<p class="" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><b>Richard Dauenhauer dies at 72; scholar of Tlingit language, culture</b></p><p class="" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large">
</p><p class="" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><span class=""><b>By </b></span><b>JILL LEOVY</b></p><p style="font-family:Georgia,serif;font-size:18px;margin-bottom:1em;color:rgb(102,102,102);width:calc(100% - 340px);line-height:27px">
</p><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4">AUGUST 24, 2014</font></div><div class="gmail_default"><font face="times new roman, serif" size="4"><br>A fish doesn't jump in Tlingit, the native language of indigenous people of Southeast Alaska.<br>
<br>It performs a feat no word in English can adequately express. The verb in Tlingit captures the instant when a fish breaks the surface, the sequence of sounds as it rises and the spray of water that spreads around it.<br>
<br>That some modern-day Alaskans get frustrated as they search for English equivalents can be attributed in part to the work of Richard Dauenhauer, a linguist, anthropologist, playwright and former Alaska poet laureate who died Tuesday of cancer in Juneau, Alaska.</font><br>
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