Documentary to focus on linguist for tribes (fwd link)

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Documentary to focus on linguist for tribes
July 28, 2013 10:31 PM

BY DARIN FENGER - FEATURES
EDITOR<http://www.yumasun.com/reporter-profile/bydarin-fenger-featureseditor-181>

For a native tribe whose language fell silent generations ago, hope emerges
with the discovery of long-lost notes made by John Peabody Harrington, the
subject of a Yuma-area filmmaker's latest documentary.

The famed linguist compiled more than a million pages of handwritten notes
about 100 native languages in the United States.

“Many tribes throughout the West are able to use his notes for many
things,” said filmmaker Daniel Golding. “There's some native communities
where the last speakers died over 80 years and the language was no longer.
But with the discovery of Harrington's hidden cache of notes, now these
tribes are able to rebuild their language from his notes. It's just amazing
to see.”

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