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</font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">From: R. F. Hahn <<a href="mailto:sassisch@yahoo.com">sassisch@yahoo.com</a>></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Subject: Language survival</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
</font></div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Dear Lowlanders,</font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">As you probably know, most Native American languages are endangered, very many of them being moribund.</font></div>
<div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">I was interested to learn that the Choctaw (Čahta') people (who live in Mississippi and Oklahoma, formerly also in Alabama) regard proficiency of their ancestral language as being one of the essential attributes of being Choctaw.</font></div>
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</font></div><div><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">What are your opinions about this, also in the light of other ethnic groups and their languages? Is it likely to safeguard the language? You might argue that it excludes those that due to circumstance missed out on learning Chactaw. You could respond to this saying that it would give such people an incentive to learn the language.</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Of course, this model assumes that ethnicity, culture and language are essential parts of an individual's identity. What then about cases in which a regional language does not come with a definite ethnicity, where a sense of ethnicity has been watered down, such as in the case of Scots and Low Saxon?</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Regards,</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br></font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif">Reinhard/Ron</font><font face="arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><br>
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