Universities Part of Effort to Revitalize Native Languages (fwd link)

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Universities Part of Effort to Revitalize Native Languages

by Cynthia J. Drake
Jul 8, 2009, 10:50
USA

The Arapaho word cen��teey��- vii means both blue
and green.

That had puzzled Amy Crowell, who studied Arapaho at the University of Wyoming.
Then she went for a hike. She noticed things � like the way the pine
tree needles contained hues of both green and blue. The world started opening a
little.

�[The language] has helped me to understand the world in a different
way,� Crowell says.

Across the country, college students have an ever-increasing array of languages
available for study, from Japanese to American Sign Language to Farsi. And in
the past two decades, the United States� own indigenous languages
� Navajo, Ojibwe, Apache and hundreds of others � have taken up
residence among their �foreign� language counterparts in some
universities and tribal colleges.

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