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First Americans

Scootaloo

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1. I had the privilege to have a dinner with Marie Smith Jones

Reply to littlemissmartypants (Original post)

Thu Mar 14, 2013, 04:32 PM

Mar 2013

The last native speaker of Eyak, who passed away in 2008. The extinction of a language is as terrible thing as the extinction of a species; when it disappears, an entire way of thinking and expressing thought, unique to that language disappears as well. Idiom, song, philosophy, legend, all of it goes down the hole without the language behind it.

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