UA Working to Rescue Native Languages (fwd link)

[Phil Cash Cash]

7 AUG 2013

*UA Working to Rescue Native Languages*
7
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2013
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American Indian languages are in peril.

When Europeans arrived in North America, approximately 300 American Indian
languages were spoken. Today, about 100 are still spoken and only a few,
such as Navajo and Tohono O’odham, are being learned by children in the
home, often in more remote regions of the reservations. But even in such
communities, the number of children who can speak these languages is
dropping rapidly.

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To aid in language preservation, the UA College of Social and Behavioral
Sciences <http://web.sbs.arizona.edu/college/> and the Department of
Linguistics <http://linguistics.arizona.edu/> is raising $1 million to
create the Ofelia Zepeda Endowment in Native American Language
Documentation and Revitalization to support a new professor whose work will
focus on the preservation of American Indian languages.

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