"Language born of colonialism thrives again in Amazon"

[Alan H. Hartley]

David Robertson wrote:
> 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
> anted=all
> 
> 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.

Here's a less unwieldy URL:

http://tinyurl.com/ku7g2

Alan

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