Sitting in a riad in Casablanca, Morocco, reading about Selk'nam (a language and people from Chile / Argentina) on Wikipedia and then following a tangent to this article about language revival:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/30/a-loss-for-words

The American perspective is strong here watch out, but there were some interesting tidbits I hadnt heard before, like "Kōhanga Reo" or language nests. Nor did I know that Hawaiian was banned in schools till 1986.

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