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Lang->Warm Springs: Some 40 indigenous languages are at risk in the Pacific Northwest
Posted on Friday, May 23 @ 15:48:53 CDT (2740 reads)

AUTHOR: Aaron Clark

Grass-roots efforts to preserve and teach youngsters native languages are intensifying around the Pacific Northwest and British Columbia as about 40 indigenous tongues are in danger of disappearing within the next decade.

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Lang->Athabascan: Siberian language may be related to Nadene languages
Posted on Sunday, April 06 @ 16:50:24 CDT (2174 reads)

AUTHOR: George Bryson

A panel of respected linguists who met in Anchorage on Friday are hailing new research that links the Old World language of Ket, still spoken sparingly along the Yenisei River in western Siberia, and the sprawling New World family of Na-Dene languages -- a broad grouping that encompasses the many Athabascan tribes in Alaska, along with the Tlingit and Eyak people, as well as Indian populations in western Canada and the American Southwest, including the Navajo and the Apache.

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Lang->Sioux: Tusweca Tiospaye Announces Lakota Dakota Nakota Language Summit
Posted on Monday, January 07 @ 11:02:20 CST (2373 reads)

Anonymous writes Tusweca Tiospaye, a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that is devoted to the promotion and strengthening of the Lakota language on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, home of the Oglala Sioux Tribe, announces the Lakota Dakota Nakota Language Summit to be held at the Ramkota Hotel in Rapid City, SD, November 11, 12, 13, 2008.

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Lang->Place Names: American indian place names
Posted on Monday, January 07 @ 10:57:56 CST (2963 reads)

AUTHOR: Borgna Brunner

About half of the states in the US got their names from Indian words. The name of Kentucky comes from an Iroquoian word (Kentahten), which means "land of tomorrow."

Connecticut's name comes from the Mohican word (Quinnehtukqut), which means "beside the long tidal river." And the word "Podunk," meant to describe a insignificant town out in the middle of nowhere, comes from a Natick Indian word meaning "swampy place."

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Lang->Cherokee: Cherokee Nation to offer online language course
Posted on Sunday, December 23 @ 14:13:52 CST (2766 reads)

The Cherokee Nation will be offering a Cherokee language course online through the tribe’s web site beginning Jan. 7

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Lang->Wichita: Fluent speakers of the Wichita tribe down to last woman
Posted on Sunday, December 09 @ 19:48:23 CST (1972 reads)

AUTHOR: S.E. Ruckman

Oklahoma had been a state for only two decades when Doris Jean Lamar was born in 1927. Her first spoken words were not English, but an American Indian language taught to her by grandparents.

Today, Lamar is the last fluent speaker in the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes, a tribe of 2,300. Sitting in a tribal canteen that she supervises, the 80-year-old Lamar carries a language that once was spoken by thousands, then hundreds of Wichita language speakers.

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Lang->Sioux: easy to follow phonetic chart teaches Lakota language pronunciation
Posted on Saturday, October 20 @ 18:25:05 CDT (2890 reads)

AUTHOR: David Melmer

For some people, unless they have heard a word before, its proper pronunciation can be quite difficult.

Such can be the case with languages that never had a written version but are now translated into printed form. For anyone who has studied a second language, the difficulty is learning when and how to use the correct tense, gender, verb conjugation and pronunciation.

The Lakota language - and any other American Indian language - is no different. Pronunciation, the proper use of modifiers and knowledge of sentence structure is important when it comes to saving a language that was never written. The intent is to preserve the language as close to its original form as possible.

Earl Bullhead, a Lakota educator on the Lower Brule Reservation in South Dakota, has developed a phonetics chart that is easy to follow and offers proper pronunciation.

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Lang->Athabascan: A new Athabascan dictionary is available
Posted on Saturday, July 14 @ 20:39:39 CDT (2562 reads)

The Alaska Native Language Center at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has published a new Athabascan dictionary.

The "Dena'ina Topical Dictionary" is an effort to document and preserve Alaska's Native languages. The university said this is the most complete topical dictionary for any of the 20 Alaska Native languages.

Dena'ina is also known as Tanaina and is a language spoken by Alaska's Athabascan Indians.

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Lang->Athabascan: A new Athabascan dictionary is available
Posted on Saturday, July 14 @ 20:39:33 CDT (2939 reads)

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Lang->Cree: Cree language to go online with new Internet dictionary
Posted on Monday, April 30 @ 00:45:22 CDT (4880 reads)

AUTHOR: Kerry Benjoe, The Leader-Post

A new Cree dictionary, containing more than 30,000 words, plus audio and video recordings is going online.

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Lang->Extinct: Miami is an extinct indigenous language of the United States
Posted on Thursday, October 13 @ 08:33:43 CDT (5459 reads)

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Formerly in Miami in north central Indiana, Miami and Peoria in northeast Oklahoma, Illinois in Illinois and Iowa.

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Lang->Menominee: Menominee is an indigenous language of the United States
Posted on Thursday, October 13 @ 08:24:24 CDT (4577 reads)

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Northeastern Wisconsin, on what was formerly the Menomini Reservation.

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Lang->Kickapoo: Kickapoo is an indigenous language of the United States
Posted on Thursday, October 13 @ 08:17:13 CDT (4997 reads)

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Northeastern Kansas: Horton; central Oklahoma: McCloud, Jones; Texas: Nuevo Nacimiento. Also spoken in Mexico.

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Lang->Naskapi: Naskapi is an indigenous language of Canada
Posted on Thursday, October 13 @ 07:52:35 CDT (5723 reads)

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2 communities in Quebec and Labrador. Those in Kawawachikamach are about 10 km northeast of Schefferville in northeastern Quebec at the height of land (watershed). On December 15, 2002 most of the Mushuau Innu moved from Utshimassits (Davis Inlet) to Natuashish on the mainland. Natuashish is an isolated community in Labrador.

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Lang->Montagnais: Montagnais is an indigenous language of Canada
Posted on Thursday, October 13 @ 07:45:05 CDT (7435 reads)

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11 communities in Quebec and Labrador, from Lake St. John eastward along the Saguenay Valley to the north shore of the St. Lawrence River and Gulf of St. Lawrence eastward to St. Augustin, northward to the height of land at Schefferville and inland Labrador (Goose Bay, Lake Melville). Western Montagnais is in 4 communities: Mashteuiatsh (near Roberval, Quebec), Betsiamites, Uashat-Maliotenam (near Sept-Iles, Quebec), and Matimekosh (near Schefferville, Quebec). The others speak Eastern Montagnais: Mingan, Natashquan, La Romaine, Pakuashipi (St. Augustine, Quebec, sometimes called Pakuashipu), and Sheshatshiu (North-West River, Labrador).

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