Language on Life Support - The National Post Jan 24, 2009

[Paul M Rickard]

Language on life support
Dozens of First Nations tongues just a generation from extinction

Adam McDowell, National Post
Published: Saturday, January 24, 2009

The clock on the kitchen wall at the Moraviantown Reserve seniors'  
centre loudly clicks away the seconds as Velma Noah waits to see if  
any of the few remaining speakers of a vanishing language can  
remember the word for "beet."

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1213150
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