Saving A Language You're Learning To Speak

Published: March 10, 2021, 5:06 a.m.

Every two weeks, a language dies with its last speaker. That was almost the fate of the Hawaiian language \u2014 until a group of young people decided to create a strong community of Hawaiian speakers \u2014 as they were learning to speak it them themselves.

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