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From http://www.pawhuskajournalcapital.com/articles/2009/11/04/news/news03.txt

PHS new Osage Language program flourishes
By BRUCE R. JACKSON
November 19, 2009

The Osage Language is taught 1:35-2:20 p.m. five days per week at the Pawhuska High School by Tallee Redcorn.

Fourteen highly motivated students show up daily to learn the nuances of the Wah-Zha-She language every week from Redcorn who is fluent in not only the oral tradition of the language, but also the newly developed written codification of the symbols.

The program is a relatively new development and while the grammar of Osage is still a work in progress the sentences can be diagrammed and the spellings of words can be codified into western letters as well as newly invented cartouche symbols representing sounds.

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