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Native American Language
6:22 am
Fri February 24, 2012

"Talking Dictionaries" Help Preserve Endangered Tribal Languages

Credit Photo Credit: K. David Harrison / Northwest News Network
iPhone apps for learning the Canadian Inuit language Inuktitut (left) and Tuvan (right), a tongue spoken by a nomadic people of Mongolia.

VANCOUVER, Canada - Usually it is good news when the Northwest appears on a top five list. But this one is not. Our region ranks near the top of a list of global hotspots for disappearing languages. The reason is that speakers of Native American languages are dwindling. Correspondent Tom Banse reports on how digital technology is coming to the rescue of some ancient tongues.

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