The Berenstain Bears Now Speak an Endangered Language (fwd link)

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The Berenstain Bears Now Speak an Endangered Language

By: Megan Gibson
Sept 17th, Time NewsFeed

If anyone can save a dying language, it's Mama Bear, simply because
we're pretty sure she can do anything.

The Associated Press reports that public television in North Dakota
and South Dakota will soon be airing the animated series "Matho
Waunsila Thiwahe" — that's Lakota for "Compassionate Bear Family" —
which is a dubbed version of the beloved series The Berenstain Bears.
Instead of English, the children's cartoon characters Mama and Papa
Bear, along with Brother and Sister Bear, will be speaking in the
little-known American Indian dialect, which the AP reports fewer than
6,000 people still speak.

Read more: http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/09/17/the-berenstain-bears-now-speak-an-endangered-language/#ixzz1YRcWGYqp