What's The Good Word? choho in Samala, New Dictionary Notes

Doug Harris cats22 at FRONTIERNET.NET
Mon Apr 21 02:23:01 UTC 2008


Linguists may find this, from today's LA Times, interesting:
"The last fluent speaker of Samala died in 1965, but thanks to a trove of
anthropological notes, a linguist has drafted a 608-page dictionary to keep
the tribal tongue alive."
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-chumash20apr20,0,3330828.story?track
=ntothtml

dh

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