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<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">From: <span class="gI"><span class="gD" style="color:#00681c">Roger Thijs, Euro-Support, Inc.</span> <span class="go"><a href="mailto:roger.thijs@euro-support.be">roger.thijs@euro-support.be</a></span></span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt">Subject: <span class="gI">LL-L Endangered Languages</span></p>
<p style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt"> </p><div>There are quite some endangered languages in the US.</div>
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<div>One of these is “Missouri French”:</div>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><em>Missouri is home to an endangered dialect of the French
language known as <strong>Missouri French</strong>. Speakers of the dialect, who
call themselves Creoles, are descendants of the French pioneers who settled the
area then known as the Illinois Country beginning in the late 17th century. It
developed in isolation from French speakers in Canada and Louisiana, becoming
<strong>quite distinct</strong> from the varieties of <strong>Canadian
French</strong> and <strong>Louisiana Creole French</strong>. Once widely spoken
throughout the area, Missouri French is now nearly extinct, with only a few
elderly speakers able to use it</em>.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3">pasted from: <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Missouri</a></font></p>
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<div><font size="3">I’m on a project in St Louis Mo and I will be over there most
of my time in the period Dec 2011– May 2012. So I’m interested whether somebody
has any clues how to contact speakers of Missouri French.</font></div>
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<div><font size="3">Regards,</font></div>
<div><font size="3">Roger</font></div></div></div><div style="text-align: center;">
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