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*Exhibit celebrates BC’s living languages*

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by Chris Bolster | reporter at prpeak.com
Published: Wednesday, July 9, 2014 8:58 AM PDT

A recently opened exhibition in Victoria is celebrating BC’s rich diversity
of First Nation languages and is helping to tell a remarkable tale of
resilience in the face of change.

Our Living Languages: First Peoples’ Voices in BC officially opened June 21
at the Royal BC Museum to coincide with National Aboriginal Day. The
exhibit, which runs until 2017, was made possible through a partnership
between the museum and the First Peoples’ Cultural Council, a BC Crown
corporation mandated to support first nations in their efforts to
revitalize their languages, arts, culture and heritage.

BC is widely regarded as a linguistic hotspot in the world with 34 unique
First Nation languages and 61 dialects. In past decades though, the
vitality of these languages has been threatened in communities here, as
they have been around the world.
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