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unusual facts about Native American languages



Albert Samuel Gatschet

Albert Samuel Gatschet (October 3, 1832, Beatenberg, Canton of Bern – March 16, 1907) was a Swiss-American ethnologist who trained as a linguist in the universities of Bern and Berlin, but later moved to the United States in order to study Native American languages, in which field he was a pioneer.

Language planning

##Tolerated language – neither promoted nor proscribed; acknowledged but ignored (e.g. Native American languages in the United States)


see also

Gallatin National Forest

The forest is named after Albert Gallatin (1761–1849), U.S. Secretary of the Treasury and scholar of Native American languages and cultures.

Hartline, Washington

Dale Kinkade - Linguist who is a specialist in the Native American languages of the Pacific Northwest, was born and raised in Hartline.

Jane H. Hill

Jane Hassler Hill (born 1939) is an American anthropologist and linguist who has worked extensively with Native American languages of the Uto-Aztecan language family.

William Bright

Bright was also known for his research on the native American languages Nahuatl, Kaqchikel, Luiseño, Ute, Wishram, and Yurok, and the South Asian languages Lushai, Kannada, Tamil, and Tulu.