Saving a language (fwd link)

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Saving a language

NOVEMBER 8, 2010
CAROLYN GRANT

As reported in Friday's Bulletin, Chelsea Nicholas, an employee of the
Paq'mi Nuq'yuk Aboriginal Early Years program, is teaching the Ktunaxa
language to young children.

The work is vitally important, Nicholas says, because the Ktunaxa
language is spoken only in this particular part of the world. It's an
isolate, and as such could be in danger of becoming extinct.

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http://www.dailybulletin.ca/article/20101108/KIMBERLEY0101/311089980/0/KIMBERLEY02/saving-a-language



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