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Stakes are High in Language Preservation Scrabble Game
For most Scrabble players the letters K, H, N, U, A, A, C might not amount to much. But for hundreds of school children using the Official Dakotah Scrabble Dictionary, those letters can be parleyed into the seven-tile word, “canakahu,” …
The Chumash Indians’s new dictionary ensures its language will never die
There are not many experts in Samala, the Santa Ynez Band of Chumash Indians’ nearly extinct native language. Actually, there is just one: Richard Applegate, Ph.D.
