[EDLING:1737] E-mail-A-Friend: Federal help sought to save native languages

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Federal help sought to save native languages

BISMARCK, N.D. (AP) — Federal grants can help keep some rarely spoken American Indian languages from disappearing, tribal and Indian education officials say. 

Of about 500 American Indian languages that existed before European immigration to North America, only about 100 still exist and 20 are spoken by American Indian children, said Ryan Wilson, president of the National Indian Education Association.

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