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Miami University helps Miami Tribe reclaim language
By Lisa Cornwell
Cincinnati, Ohio (AP) Kelsey Young – like many other members of the Miami Tribe of Oklahoma – could not understand her tribe’s language. The Myaamia Project supported by the tribe and Miami University is changing that – helping the tribe reclaim and keep its language and culture alive. The Miami language is one of many that have been threatened with extinction. Linguists have said that of an estimated 7,000 languages spoken in the world today, nearly half are in danger of disappearing in this century and are falling out of use at the rate of about one every two weeks. The Miami tribe is centered in Oklahoma, one of five hotspots around the world where languages are most endangered, according to the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages. |
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