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#SpeakGwichinToMe: Using social media to reclaim language
January 24, 2016

A Gwich'in woman is using social media to get people speaking one of the most endangered languages in Canada.

…"We don't have time to wait for another generation or so to really work on bringing the Gwich'in language back to being spoken more," said 23-year-old Jacey Firth-Hagen.

…She was inspired by the efforts of the Sami — an indigenous people from northern Europe who started a language campaign using hashtag #SpeakSamiToMe. They use Instagram and other social media apps to share photos captioned in the Sami language and translated into Norwegian, Swedish and Finnish languages.

…Scroll through Instagram, Youtube, Facebook and Twitter, and you'll also find other languages being shared as well — like #SpeakTlichoToMe and #SpeakCree, to name just two.

Read the full article here: http://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/lost-found-and-shared-indigenous-language-speakers-on-the-rise-1.3410203/speakgwichintome-using-social-media-to-reclaim-language-1.3413960