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Reviving Yurok: Saving One of California's 90 Languages
BBC ^ | 25 June 2013

Posted on 06/26/2013 3:41:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway

California is home to the greatest diversity of Native American tribes in the US, and even today, 90 identifiable languages are still spoken there.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Books/Literature; Education; History
KEYWORDS: epigraphyandlanguage; godsgravesglyphs

1 posted on 06/26/2013 3:41:23 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: StayAt HomeMother; Ernest_at_the_Beach; decimon; 1010RD; 21twelve; 24Karet; 2ndDivisionVet; ...

 GGG managers are SunkenCiv, StayAt HomeMother & Ernest_at_the_Beach
Thanks nickcarraway.

To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.


2 posted on 06/26/2013 4:09:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (McCain or Romney would have been worse, if you're a dumb ass.)
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To: nickcarraway

Alas, poor Yurok, I knew it well.


3 posted on 06/26/2013 4:21:19 PM PDT by Yo-Yo
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To: Yo-Yo

LOL, yu rok!


4 posted on 06/26/2013 4:44:12 PM PDT by Tijeras_Slim
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>> I knew it well <<

Me too. But now, how abhorred in my imagination it is!


5 posted on 06/26/2013 7:47:56 PM PDT by Hawthorn
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To: nickcarraway

I’m somewhere between Yurok and a hard place, virtually speechless that someone is really exercised enough about this to make a fuss.

My guess is there must be federal funding out there somewhere, maybe in the geology field, for saving Yurok.


6 posted on 06/27/2013 7:15:12 AM PDT by wildbill (You're just jealous because the Voices talk only to me.)
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My guess is there must be federal funding out there somewhere....

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Most likely.


7 posted on 06/27/2013 4:50:37 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Restore us, O God of hosts; let your face shine, that we may be saved! -Ps80)
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To: nickcarraway

My children were able to see a wonderful Yurok village at a state park in Northern California and went into a lodge. It was very educational for them and we timed it with their curriculum at school. I loved it too!


8 posted on 06/27/2013 6:28:18 PM PDT by Melian ("Where will wants not, a way opens.")
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