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Dozens of Aboriginal languages near death: UNESCO

It may be spoken by thousands, but a United Nations agency says Micmac, an Atlantic Canadian language, could go the way of Latin and die, only to be studied through books by historians and no longer spoken among people. Full Article at CTV

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