California: "Breath of Life" conference to revive native languages</tile> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta http-equiv="description" content="California: "Breath of Life" conference to revive native languages"> <meta http-equiv="keywords" content="California,"Breath,of,Life",conference,to,revive,native,languages"> </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">16-06-2008</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>California: "Breath of Life" conference to revive native languages</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 (SFGate): UC Berkeley's seven-day "Breath of Life" conference, a biennial event ended Saturday, representing about two dozen of the state's 80 to 100 "sleeping" or endangered California Indian languages, which the participants are struggling to revitalize. Gutierrez, for example, has worked feverishly up to 12 hours a day for 2 1/2 years to put the field notes of famed linguist J.P. Harrington - a recorder of many Native American languages - into a database to make them easily accessible and searchable. For decades, Leanne Hinton, co-founder of the 15-year-old conference and a professor emeritus of linguistics at Cal, has been a major force behind this reclamation project, which some might see as futile or quixotic. <br> <br>For more information, please visit: <br><a href="http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/14/BAA7119G67.DTL " target="blank">www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/06/14/BAA7119G67.DTL </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