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Sunday, July 11, 2004, 22:52

Berkeley students work to preserve lost Native American languages

Knight Ridder Newspapers

Since mid-June, the university's linguistics department has been helping about 50 Native Californians learn to read, write and speak their languages, many of whom have not been used for decades and are considered "dead languages." Throughout the 20th century, the federal government aggressively tried to stamp out the languages, sending native children to boarding schools where only English was permitted and prohibiting the teaching of the languages in public schools.
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