Native languages live on in place names (fwd link)

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Published - Sunday, June 01, 2008

Native languages live on in place names
By Lee Newspapers

If you want to see how the state’s native languages are part of its heritage,
look at a map.

A Wisconsin atlas is full of place names such as Wausau and Portage derived from
those languages. Hundreds more native place names still exist but have fallen
out of common use.

Many native place names also have value to scientists and conservationists who
want to document or restore lost habitats, said Jim St. Arnold, a specialist in
Ojibwe language names.

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