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Lost Indian language reconstructed for movie

Posted to: News Special Reports
By Joanne Kimberlin
The Virginian-Pilot
© June 10, 2009

Hollywood has done one thing for Virginia Indians: restored their language – at
least in part.

Director Terrence Malick gets the credit. A stickler for details, Malick wanted
authentic native dialogue for “The New World,” his 2006 film about the founding
of Jamestown, starring Colin Farrell.

Trouble was, that particular dialect of Algonquian has been extinct since the
end of the 1700s. When Malick’s search for a native speaker came up
empty-handed, the director hired Blair Rudes, a linguist at the University of
North Carolina at Charlotte, to resurrect words that hadn’t been spoken in more
than 200 years.

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