Discussion Forum—A Way with Words, a fun radio show and podcast about language

Tribes Strive To Save Native Tongues. Native leaders are compiling dictionaries, drafting lesson plans, and scrambling to save what scraps of language they can before the last of the fluent elders dies. In the case of Kiksht, a language spoken for centuries along Oregon's Columbia River, there are two remaining speakers and neither can remember the words for “yawn” or “brown.”