Saving a language from extinction (fwd link)

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Nov 3, 2010 3:14pm

Saving a language from extinction

First Nation working with school board to keep Squamish language alive

By Gagandeep Ghuman

For understatement, you could perhaps call Charlene Williams a teacher.

But at the Squamish Nation Totem Hall, they know this 30-year-old
aboriginal language and cultural instructor is much more than that.

Charlene Williams is hope.

Williams is one of the few young people in the Squamish Nation who can
speak the Squamish language (Sḵwx̱wú7mesh snichim), a language that is
on the verge of extinction.

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