Educators and Scholars Come Together to Examine and Improve Language Preservation (fwd blog link)

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Educators and Scholars Come Together to Examine and Improve Language
Preservation

June 16th, 2010 - Posted by Abby Mogollón
USA

Around the world, educators and scholars are coming together throughout the
summer at special conferences and institutes to explore new ways to protect,
maintain, and transmit Indigenous languages.
During the past two weeks participants at the American Indian Language
Development Institute (AILDI) <http://www.u.arizona.edu/%7Eaildi/>, held in
Tucson, Arizona, have been investigating ways to use technology to advance
their work. “During AILDI each summer, Indigenous language warriors from all
over gather to learn, share, and prepare to fight to keep our Indigenous
languages alive,” says AILDI faculty member Stacey Oberly, a member of the
Southern Ute tribe working on native language revitalization.

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