Dead linguist's work reviving dead languages (fwd link)

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Jan. 12, 2008, 10:59PM

Dead linguist's work reviving dead languages
Eccentric traveled California talking to native speakers in the early 1900s

By LISA KRIEGER
San Jose Mercury News

SAN JOSE, CALIF. — Bringing voices from the grave, volunteers at the University
of California-Davis are working to decipher nearly a million pages of notes
from conversations with long-gone Californians, reviving more than 100
languages from the distant past.

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