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"ref": "2004, George Guthridge, “Nine Whispered Opinions Regarding the Alaskan Secession”, in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction, volume 107, number 1, page 37",
"text": "Mary Sarah Nelson, 93, is not the last of her tribe – there are four dozen left – but the last speaker of its language. The federal attempt to grant tax credits to Native American parents whose children prove fluent in Native languages has failed. When she switches from English to Eyak, there is a sadness to her that neither language can express.",
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"text": "The irony of the Bibles and their translation into Native languages during the same period in which Native children were punished, even beaten, for speaking their language is another point left unexplored in the galleries of the NMAI."
},
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"ref": "2007, Bruce Elliott Johansen, The Praeger Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Native America, Greenwood, page 20",
"text": "Additional Alaska Native language programs have been offered by the Goldbelt Corporation and Sealaska Corporation. Elementary, intermediate, and advanced Tlingit, as well as elementary Haida, have been taught at the University of Alaska Southeast by Native speakers who are fluent and also understand the worldview expressed by the languages, as reflected in their syntax and grammar and their cultural references.",
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"word": "birthtongue"
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"word": "స్థానిక భాష"
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},
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"ref": "2007, Bruce Elliott Johansen, The Praeger Handbook on Contemporary Issues in Native America, Greenwood, page 20",
"text": "Additional Alaska Native language programs have been offered by the Goldbelt Corporation and Sealaska Corporation. Elementary, intermediate, and advanced Tlingit, as well as elementary Haida, have been taught at the University of Alaska Southeast by Native speakers who are fluent and also understand the worldview expressed by the languages, as reflected in their syntax and grammar and their cultural references.",
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"word": "байырғы тіл"
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"sense": "language of a Native or Aboriginal people",
"word": "స్థానిక భాష"
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"sense": "language of a Native or Aboriginal people",
"word": "ngôn ngữ mẹ đẻ"
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"sense": "language of a Native or Aboriginal people",
"word": "tiếng mẹ đẻ"
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"sense": "language of a Native or Aboriginal people",
"word": "ngôn ngữ bản địa"
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"sense": "language of a Native or Aboriginal people",
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