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| Contentid | 3183 |
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| Content Type | 1 |
| Title | Native American Language Dictionary in Progress |
| Body | There are only 300 living speakers of Nuuchahnulth in west Canada, most of them older speakers, but thanks to a Newcastle University professor, the language is about to get its own dictionary. Nuuchahnulth is a highly agglutinative language, which means it allows entire sentences to be encapsulated into a single word. The project largely utilizes data collected by linguist Edward Sapir almost 100 years ago. Read the BBC News article at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/4583455.stm |
| Source | BBC News |
| Inputdate | 2005-06-07 19:42:00 |
| Lastmodifieddate | 2005-06-07 19:42:00 |
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| Publishdate | 2005-06-13 00:00:00 |
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