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23-11-2006
Melissa Axelrod, a life dedicated to rescuing dying languages
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New Mexico, USA (ScienceCareers): Language is the thread that connects Native American communities with their traditional way of life, their histories, their ceremonies, their prayers, and the words of their ancestors. It’s vital to cultural identity. Yet without intervention, half of the world’s indigenous languages are expected to vanish in the next 100 years. […] Once the majority of young people in a community no longer speak their heritage language, it declines rapidly. That’s where Melissa Axelrod steps in. A linguistics professor at the University of New Mexico, she has devoted her life to rescuing dying languages.
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