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Thanks for reading the Multilingual Books newsletter, your source for foreign language news, information, and product information and specials from Multilingual Books. This is also available as a web page at our website, www.multilingualbooks.com. In this issue: Feature Article - Northwest Indians continue efforts to revive languages at UW Product News - Audiofy Player with Pimsleur Bookchips - Top 10 Products Featured Site - 2005: The Year of Languages Language Trivia Contest - Answer correctly and win FREE language products! Newsletter Specials - Special offers only for our newsletter subscribers! Send to a Friend Please send this along to anyone you think might be interested by clicking the link above. Unsubscribe/Subscribe Information This newsletter is intended as a service to language enthusiasts and customers of Multilingual Books. You have received this because our records indicate you have ordered products from us or have asked to join our mailing list. If this message was unwanted, we apologize and offer an automated unsubscribe service: Unsubscribe, or, send an e-mail from the address you want to unsubscribe to multilingualbooks-unsubscribe@topica.email-publisher.com. If you were forwarded this newsletter and would like to subscribe, we offer automated subscription: Subscribe, or, send an e-mail from the address you want to subscribe to multilingualbooks-subscribe@topica.email-publisher.com. Thank you.		Featured This Issue
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Feature Article

Northwest Indians continue efforts to revive languages at UW workshop
Public release from eurekalert.org

A language is a terrible thing to lose, and that's why nearly two dozen community members of Northwest Indian tribes and nations will spend next week at the University of Washington learning ways to breathe new life into endangered indigenous languages.

Workshop attendees with interests in the languages of the Upper Skagit, Colville, Nimipu (Nez Perce), Muckleshoot, Wenatchee, Tutudin (Southern Oregon Athabaskan), Montana Salish, Klamath, Samish and Chinook tribes and nations will participate in the second UW Breath of Life workshop Sept. 12-16 on the university's Seattle campus.

The workshop is designed to show the participants, who are involved in revitalizing imperiled languages, the resources available at the UW and provide them with new tools. They will work with linguists, who are both professionals and graduate students, and library archivists to learn the basics of linguistics and explore material on their languages that is stored in the UW library and archives and at the Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture.

"The workshop allows reconnecting broken links in a chain. A lot of material collected by linguists and anthropologists doing fieldwork is unknown to Indian peoples and we want to open the resources of the university to them," said Alicia Wassink, assistant professor of linguistics, who is co-directing the workshop. "This is an opportunity to be literally inspired to breathe life into their languages."

She said one of the participants in the 2003 workshop found a recording of a tribal story made by her grandfather. Another took a copy of a tape home, not realizing that it contained the voice of his grandfather singing. Other participants were searching for specific stories and were excited to find complete transcripts for stories of which they had previously only heard fragments.

Alice Taff, a UW research associate who organized the first Breath of Life workshop two years ago and is involved in a project to preserve the Aleut language in the Aleutian and Pribilof islands of Alaska, is the co-director.

During the workshop, participants will go to classes in the morning to learn linguistics skills that will aid them in their archival searches. They'll also be introduced to new software and specialized fonts that have been developed for creating on-line dictionaries and Web sites.

In the afternoon, archivists will help them explore and sort through material on their tribal language. Each participant also will work on a project related to revitalizing his or her language.

The UW holds a wealth of materials relating to Northwest Indian languages. Among them are the Melville Jacobs, Northwest Linguistics and Ethnomusicology collections. The Jacobs collection includes numerous field recordings, notebooks and other materials related to Indian languages and music in Washington collected between 1926 and 1939 by the former chairman of the anthropology department. The Northwest Linguistics collection consists of more than 800 audiotapes and numerous microfilm copies of linguistics field notes. The Ethnomusicology Collection is one of the largest in the country and includes songs of Pacific Northwest Indians.

The UW workshop is modeled and named after a similar program that has been held biannually since 1996 at the University of California, Berkeley, to revitalize Indian languages in California.

See the entire release at: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-09/asfb-nic090605.php

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The American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL) has declared 2005 to be the "Year of Languages". The Year of Languages website includes resources for teachers and parents wishing to participate. From the website: Join us as we engage in a nationwide endeavor to highlight the importance of language learning and cultural understanding! This web site will provide you with the latest updates and information on events throughout the year!

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