Preserving native languages (fwd link)

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Published: Nov. 12, 2013 Updated: Nov. 13, 2013 11:08 a.m.Preserving native
languages
By SHERRI CRUZ <http://www.ocregister.com/reporter-profile/sherri-2291-cruz>
 / ORANGE COUNTY REGISTER

A small plane brought Chapman professor Pilar Valenzuela and student Priya
Shah to the village that resides along the meandering, 1,000-mile-long
Ucayali River in the Peruvian Amazon jungle.

“You land in a little field of grass,” Shah said. “The airport was a piece
of metal on top of four poles.”

Valenzuela is an expert in the languages of the Shipibo (shih-pee-boe) and
Shiwilu (shih-wee-loo) people of the area. Shah and other Chapman students
went with her on one of her many work and research trips to Peru to help
her document the Shiwilu language.

While Shipibo is still spoken, learned and passed on to children, Shiwilu
is on the verge of extinction.

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