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FINDING OUR TALK III (Mohawk)
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FINDING OUR TALK III (Mohawk)
Abenaki
Abenaki is a language that's managed to survive with only one dedicated speaker per generation teaching a mere handful of students.
Ktunaxa & Technology
Can the 'wired teepee' help save the Ktunaxa language in the Kootenays?
Australia - Language Under Attack
The number of Aboriginal languages that existed in Australia prior to colonization is estimated to be about 600. In those days most Aborigines were multilingual and likely to speak a half dozen languages as well as their own. Tragically, in the last two hundred years Australia has suffered the largest and most rapid loss of languages known to history. Currently there are only 200 different Aboriginal languages across Australia, with only about 20 in constant use.
Chitimacha
The Chitimacha Nation of Charenton, Louisiana partners with Rosetta Stone, a language learning software company, to create teaching aids for a language that has no fluent speakers. Piecing together the language from old, wax cylinder recordings, this 1,000 member strong community is relying on its determination and thriving cultural identity to awaken the Chitimacha language from its long slumber.