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Siletz Dee-ni language (NYT article)
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26 September 2012 at 12:21am | IP Logged

An interesting story about a Native American language that has been narrowly saved from
extinction:

Quote:

Tribe Revives Language on Verge of Extinction

SILETZ, Ore. — Local native languages teeter on the brink of oblivion all over the
world as the big linguistic sweepstakes winners like English, Spanish or Mandarin ride
a surging wave of global communications.

But the forces that are helping to flatten the landscape are also creating new ways to
save its hidden, cloistered corners, as in the unlikely survival of Siletz Dee-ni. An
American Indian language with only about five speakers left — once dominant in this
part of the West, then relegated to near extinction — has, since earlier this year,
been shouting back to the world: Hey, we’re talking. (In Siletz that would be naa-
ch’aa-ghit-’a.)…

Some resources:

* Overview site, with resources
* Online dictionary
* Wikipedia (short)

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