70 Native American languages will disappear in the next 10 years</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="70 Native American languages will disappear in the next 10 years"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="70,Native,American,languages,will,disappear,in,the,next,10,years"> </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">31-01-2008</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>70 Native American languages will disappear in the next 10 years</b></font> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> </td> </tr> <tr> <td width="100%"> <font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif" size="2">Vermont, USA (VPR): In the United States, there are as many as 50 languages that are spoken by five people or fewer. Here in our region, the Western Abenaki language is threatened. According to the journal Cultural Survival Quarterly, 70 Native American languages will disappear in the next 10 years if nothing is done to keep them alive. But around the world people are working to rescue native languages from extinction. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.vpr.net/news_detail/79141/ " target="blank">www.vpr.net/news_detail/79141/ </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