{"id":468,"date":"2008-01-24T14:46:13","date_gmt":"2008-01-24T13:46:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=468"},"modified":"2008-01-24T14:46:13","modified_gmt":"2008-01-24T13:46:13","slug":"another-lost-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/?p=468","title":{"rendered":"Another lost language"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A sad tale from <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/2\/hi\/americas\/7206411.stm\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>BBC<\/strong><\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>A woman believed to be the last native speaker of the Eyak language in the north-western US state of Alaska has died at the age of 89.<\/p>\n<p>Marie Smith Jones was a champion of indigenous rights and conservation. She died at her home in Anchorage.<\/p>\n<p>She helped the University of Alaska compile an Eyak dictionary, so that future generations would have the chance to resurrect it.<\/p>\n<p>Ms Jones is described by her family as a tiny chain smoking woman who was fiercely independent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>None of her nine children learned to speak the language, and there are 20 more Alaskan tongues in danger of dying out. \ud83d\ude41<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A sad tale from BBC: A woman believed to be the last native speaker of the Eyak language in the north-western US state of Alaska has died at the age of 89. Marie Smith Jones was a champion of indigenous rights and conservation. She died at her home in Anchorage. She helped the University of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,44],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tinyplanetblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}