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Saving Alaska's Native Languages

Published March 7, 2002 at 11:00 PM CST

By some estimates, more than half the languages spoken in the world today will be gone by the end of the century. For Morning Edition, NPR's Joe Palca reports on one attempt in Alaska to slow the extinction process.

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