U. conference addresses endangered languages (fwd link)

[Rolland Nadjiwon]

Phil...I think it is really great how you keep us informed on these 
kinds of issues. You have been doing so for some time now and I wanted 
to express my thanks for information which might not otherwise be at my 
disposal. Keep up the good work and thank you....

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phil cash cash wrote:
> U. conference addresses endangered languages
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> By Wendy Leonard
> Deseret News
> Published: Thursday, Nov. 12, 2009 4:43 p.m. MST
> USA
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> In a world where more than 7,000 languages are spoken, it's hard to imagine
> everyone speaking the same tongue – or one of only four.
>
> In the last 500 years, half of the world's languages have become extinct. It is
> predicted that in the next 100 years, nearly 50 percent of the world's current
> languages will follow suit, much like Kuku Thaypan, an Australian Aboriginal
> language in which only one man now is fluent."It's an unspeakable tragedy,"
> said Lyle Campbell, a University of Utah linguistics professor and director of
> the U.'s Center for American Indian Languages. He said that of the 151 American
> Indian languages spoken in America today, only 20 of them are being taught to
> children, which means that much of the knowledge originated in those languages
> could be lost with the extinction of various tongues. In Utah, the Shoshone
> language has great possibility of becoming extinct, because only the senior
> population speaks it.
>
> Access full article below:
> http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705344021/U-conference-addresses-endangered-languages.html
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