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War technology used to save languages
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Washington, USA (AS): The Phraselator, a hand-held electronic device could help the Squaxin Island Indians - and tribes throughout the country - preserve their native language. "After the elders pass on, that's it," said Corey (Bear) O'Lague, who lives on the Squaxin reservation and grew up speaking a southern dialect of the language. He was one of about a dozen people who came to the Squaxin Island Tribe Museum, Library and Research Center Friday for a demonstration of the Phraselator, a tool for revitalizing American Indian languages. "We could take it to the elders, who still speak the language," O'Lague said. The Phraselator was developed by a defense company after the Sept. 11 attacks and was first used strictly for soldiers to communicate with non-English speakers.
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