Language council seen as hope for Native culture (fwd link)

[Phil Cash Cash]

Language council sounds awesome!

P.

On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 10:49 AM, Phillip E Cash Cash <
cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:

> Language council seen as hope for Native culture
>
> Posted: June 11, 2012 - 8:46am
> By Pat Forgey
> Morris News Service -- Alaska, Juneau Empire
>
> A new Alaska Native Language Council has the potential to bring threatened
> languages back from the brink of extinction, say experts in the field.
>
> "Our hope is that we can really create living languages, and advocate for
> the importance of the languages," said Lance Twitchell, an assistant
> professor of Alaska Native languages at the University of Alaska Southeast.
>
> Alaska's Native languages are in various states of decline, with only
> about 200 fluent Tlingit speakers left, while there are more than 10,000
> speakers of Central Yup'ik.
>
> Access full article below:
>
> http://peninsulaclarion.com/news/2012-06-11/language-council-seen-as-hope-for-native-culture
>
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