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wow.

thanks for the link, FF! definitely will get Facebooked tonight!


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I'll piggy back on Buff...
thanks so much really great!


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wow
That must have taken a very long time to put together...the highest award for dedication should be bestowed laugh


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Meant to put this over in Misc. Was rushed.

Yes, bex, a staggering effort and passion have gone into it.

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Thanks FF a great link.

Its something all counties should think of doing..... preservation of language.

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But there are dozens of languages in the US that are almost
dead: Native American, chiefly, but a couple from obscure
places in Europe whose folks colonized here and now are
left with a dozen or less still speaking the mother tongue.


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Languages like, Wagiman, say?


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Yes, but I think that one is Australian, if I remember
the 'daffynition' word correctly. Many Native American
Tribal tongues are about gone.


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I think I read somewhere that one of the NA tongues had two people left who spoke it and one of them was interviewed and refused to speak anything but that and they had to find someone who could speak it to translate for them, found the other speaker and then had to give up on the interview once they had been introduced because they had both thought that they were the last speakers of that language and had a major catching up session in their language


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