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Awesome. Good luck to you!

I am also working on low-resource languages (in Central America, but not my heritage). I see on Wikipedia [0] it seems it's a case of revival. Are you collecting resources/data or using existing? (I see some links on Wikipedia).

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Upper_Chinook_language




We are fortunate to have a (comparatively) large amount of written and recorded language artifacts. Kiksht (and Chinookan languages generally) were heavily studied in the early 1900s by linguists like Sapir.

re: revival, the Wikipedia article is a little misleading, Gladys was the last person whose first language was Kiksht, not the last speaker. And, in any event, languages are constantly changing. If we had been left alone in 1804 it would be different now than it was then. We will mold the language to our current context just like any other people.




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