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[iainzard]

World's first Nuuchahnulth ("Nootka") dictionary completed."Speakers are known to employ a set of hisses or extra consonants depending on whether they are talking to or about children, fat or short people, lame people, hunchbacked men or anyone who has an eye defect."
Reminds me of a great book I read not too long ago, Spoken Here, about the

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[tikimonkey]

this reminds me of something i had meant to share with you: FEDERAL AGENCIES TAKE STEPS TO DOCUMENT ENDANGERED LANGUAGES; NEH, NSF launch effort to create digital records of dying languages.