Saving an 8,000-year-old dialect</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="Saving an 8,000-year-old dialect"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="Saving,an,8,000-year-old,dialect"> </head> <body> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="10" height="39"> </td> <td width="99%" height="39"> <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="16%"><a href="http://inttranews.inttra.net"><img src="http://inttranews.inttra.net/images/inttranews_grey_2.jpg" width="192" height="37" border="0"></a></td> <td width="50%" valign="middle"> <p><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"><b><font color="#CCCCCC" face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1">KNOW.<br> HOW.</font></b></font> </p> </td> <td width="34%" align="right" valign="top"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="1" color="#666666">05-10-2007</font></td> </tr> </table> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="10"> </td> <td width="99%" > <table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"> <tr> <td width="100%"><font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2"> <b>Saving an 8,000-year-old dialect</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">California, USA (AP): As a child in the 1950s Loretta Kelsey grew up hearing the sounds of Elem Pomo – an 8,000-year-old dialect spoken by early peoples of Northern California along the shores of Clear Lake. Since then – as an older generation passed away – the language they spoke has disappeared with them. The 59-year-old Kelsey is the last fluent speaker of Elem Pomo alive today, and has teamed up with a prominent UC Berkeley linguist to help teach tribe members the language. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=7149398&nav=9qrx" target="blank">www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=7149398&nav=9qrx</a> <br></font></td> </tr> </table> </td></tr> </table> <script type="text/javascript"></script> <script type="text/javascript" src="<http://pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/show