Cultural History » Linguistics http://www.scarcliff.com/cultural-history Thu, 13 Oct 2011 23:08:27 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Salish–Pend d’Oreille On The Brink http://www.scarcliff.com/cultural-history/2007/12/salish%e2%80%93pend-d%e2%80%99oreille-on-the-brink/ http://www.scarcliff.com/cultural-history/2007/12/salish%e2%80%93pend-d%e2%80%99oreille-on-the-brink/#comments Fri, 07 Dec 2007 15:30:50 +0000 Brent http://www.scarcliff.com/cultural-history/2007/12/salish%e2%80%93pend-d%e2%80%99oreille-on-the-brink/ Continue reading →]]> But like so many indigenous languages on every populated continent, Salish–Pend d’Oreille is on the point of vanishing. Fewer than thirty fluent native speakers remain, and nearly all of them are elderly. The great majority of the roughly 6,000 Salish and Pend d’Oreille tribal members do not speak their ancestral language at all.

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