Miami University helps Miami Tribe reclaim language (fwd link)

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Miami University helps Miami Tribe reclaim language

Posted: April 07, 2008
By Lisa Cornwell -- Associated Press

CINCINNATI (AP) - Kelsey Young - like many other members of the Miami Tribe of
Oklahoma - could not understand her tribe's language. The Myaamia Project
supported by the tribe and Miami University is changing that - helping the
tribe reclaim and keep its language and culture alive.

The Miami language is one of many that have been threatened with extinction.
Linguists have said that of an estimated 7,000 languages spoken in the world
today, nearly half are in danger of disappearing in this century and are
falling out of use at the rate of about one every two weeks.

The Miami Tribe is centered in Oklahoma, one of five hotspots around the world
where languages are most endangered, according to the Living Tongues Institute
for Endangered Languages.

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