Indigenous educators learn from Hawaiian language renewal (fwd link)

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*Indigenous educators learn from Hawaiian language renewal*

January 21, 2014  |  UH News staff


The Hawaiian language came back from the brink of extinction in the early
1980s thanks to a revival program by a small group of educators.

When it started, the number of Native Hawaiian speakers was in the
hundreds, now there are thousands.

In January 2014, 300 teachers, school administrators, researchers and
delegates representing indigenous languages in 25 of the 50 United States
and ten countries came to Hawaiʻi to take part in the 21st annual
Stabilizing Indigenous Languages Symposium.

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http://www.hawaii.edu/news/2014/01/21/indigenous-educators-learn-from-hawaiian-language-renewal/
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