"Language born of colonialism thrives again in Amazon"

[David Robertson]

Published in the New York Times a year ago (August 28, 2005).

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/28/international/americas/28amazon.html?
ei=5090&en=2dbb31357d010164&ex=1282881600&partner=rssuserland&emc=rss&pagew
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I hope the link works.

The article is about Nheengatu, a contact language that has become the 
first language of several thousand Native people in one region of Brazil.  
Kind of interesting to compare with the story of Jargon at Grand Ronde.

--Dave R

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