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Cunning Linguists Languages and their use. What languages do you speak and why? What do words really mean? Can you say things in one language that you can't say in another? Should there be a national language? How many languages should a person know and what are they?

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 #1 
Old 2008-01-26, 22:04
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Wasilla, Alaska
Default So long Eyak

In Alaska, the last Native speaker of Eyak died recently.

Right now, there are about twenty Native languges still extant, with the number of speakers ranging from 5 to10,000.
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Old 2008-01-26, 22:16
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By native, do you mean inuit, or native including all the other aboriginals?

How much do they differ anyway?
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Old 2008-01-26, 22:31
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Wasilla, Alaska
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The figure includes Inuits, Aleuts, Tlingits, and various Alaskan Indians. I don't know a lot about them, but there is a story in bbc news--in fact, I'll post a link in a minute.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7206411.stm

there.
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Old 2008-01-26, 22:34
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Excellent, thanks
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Old 2008-01-26, 22:56
Cellophane_Man Cellophane_Man is offline
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Languages die out at the rate of about 1 a fortnight.

Sad but true.
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Old 2008-01-29, 17:34
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Good riddance.
 
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