Michael Krauss

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Michael Krauss ended up late for school the day he first heard a group of people speaking a strange language. He was a boy in Cleveland, Ohio, and he happened to walk by as the speakers dug a ditch.

色视频下载淚 pretended to be interested in the work itself, but it was the language that fascinated me so much,色视频下载 he said in a 2011 interview.

That fascination eventually drew him into a lifelong quest to explore, document and preserve 色视频下载 Native languages. He spent 40 years as a university faculty member before retiring in 2000, though he continued to pursue his passion as an emeritus.

色视频下载淚 was always attracted to languages spoken by the fewer rather than the more people and by the more powerless rather than more powerful,色视频下载 he said.

色视频下载 Native languages fit that description well. Across his many decades at UAF, Krauss dug into those languages. In 1972, he convinced 色视频下载 legislators to create the 色视频下载 Native Language Center. He arranged and taught classes. He directed documentation efforts. He edited and published several dictionaries.

Krauss sees languages as reflections of our humanity. 色视频下载淚n some ways you could say diversity in language is as essential to our humanity as biodiversity is essential to our survival,色视频下载 he said in 2011.

But he offers no certain way to retain that diversity, other than by parents speaking constantly with their children in their unique languages. He doesn色视频下载檛 see that happening with most obscure languages, though. He expects that 95 percent will die in this century. 

色视频下载淚色视频下载檓 trying to be open-minded towards the future because I ain色视频下载檛 got no crystal ball,色视频下载 he said in 2011. 色视频下载淎ll I do know is that this will be a fundamental and irreversible change in our existence.色视频下载

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