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Title | Article: Tongva Reclamation in Los Angeles |
Body | From https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-col1-tongva-language-native-american-tribe/ Tongva, Los Angeles’ first language, opens the door to a forgotten time and place Each month they gather, practicing pronunciation, mastering the use of particles, singing songs and playing word games under the guidance of Pam Munro, a linguist from UCLA who has been teaching these classes for 15 years. She calls her work “a reclamation effort” for a language that is no longer used in conversations. She avoids calling Tongva extinct; that, she said, is a hurtful pronouncement upon a culture that still exists and a world that in the eyes of many has never disappeared. Like a detective following clues, Munro studied the work left by earlier linguists and ethnographers and slowly reassembled Tongva. Much is irretrievable, but in this classroom — in the intonation of words and the careful assembly of phrases — lies an invocation of another time and place. Read the full article at https://www.latimes.com/projects/la-me-col1-tongva-language-native-american-tribe/ |
Source | Los Angeles Times |
Inputdate | 2019-05-12 20:27:41 |
Lastmodifieddate | 2019-05-13 04:31:57 |
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Publishdate | 2019-05-13 02:15:01 |
Displaydate | 2019-05-13 00:00:00 |
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