Textual Evidence in "The Case of the Disappearing Words"

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Earth is home to around 7,000 languages.

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Sometimes societies force minorities to give up language and traditions.

Many Native American children were required to attend boarding schools.

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The United Nations regularly releases lists of endangered languages.

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A vulnerable language is one that many children speak at home, but few speak outside of their homes.

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A "definitely endangered" language is one that older generations speak, but children no longer learn in the home.

Dakota, a language of the Great Plains..., is definitely endangered.

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Languages contribute to cultural diversity.

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A language's vocabulary paints a fascinating picture of a society's way of life.

We know a little more about India's Gta' speakers when we learn that they have words like nosor meaning "to free someone from a tiger."

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For many years, public schools in Hawaii did not teach the Hawaiian language.

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Hebrew grew from 8,000 words to 50,000 words.

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A Jewish newspaper editor and linguist named Eliezer Ben-Yehuda...persuaded Teacher's and rabbis to hold all their classes in Hebrew...He wrote a dictionary.

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