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Title | Speakers of Dena'ina Race to Save their Language` |
Body | From http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=11625659 Speakers of Dena'ina race to save their language by Eric Sowl December 4, 2009 Forty years ago, there was very little recorded information regarding the Dena'ina Athabascan culture. But in the past four decades, Native leaders and scholars have been making a push to beat the clock in preserving this endangered Alaska Native language. "There may be 40 fluent speakers left of the language," said linguistic anthropologist Roy Mitchell. For the past decade, groups like this have been getting together to teach and record the Dena'ina language. The goal is rescue this ancient tongue and revitalize its spoken word. Read the full article at http://www.ktuu.com/Global/story.asp?S=11625659 |
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