Racing to Save a Native American Language (fwd link)

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Racing to Save a Native American Language

By ICTMN Staff November 9, 2011
USA

There are a number of challenges to saving an endangered language from
documenting to teaching, but those aren’t stopping language
specialists from the Cherokee Nation, the University of Kansas (KU)
and the University of Oklahoma.

The nation has been working on a number of initiatives over the last
two decades to revitalize the Cherokee language including establishing
a searchable Cherokee Electronic Dictionary (CED) and the Cherokee
Nation Immersion School in Tahlequah, Oklahoma.

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