The Center for American Indian Languages (CAIL) is a research and outreach arm of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Utah. Linguistics is the scientific study of Language, encompassing a number of sub-fields The University of Utah (referred to locally as ' The U' or ' the U of U') is a publicly funded Research university in Salt Lake Its mission is to assist community members in the maintenance and revitalization (where possible) of endangered languages, to document these languages, and to train students to do this sort of work. Language revitalization is the attempt by interested parties including individuals cultural or community groups governments or political authorities to recover the spoken use of a An endangered language is a Language that it is at risk of falling out of use generally because it has few surviving speakers
The Center was founded in 2004 by its present director, well-known Americanist and historical linguist Lyle Campbell. "MMIV" redirects here For the Modest Mouse album see " Baron von Bullshit Rides Again " Indigenous languages of the Americas (or Amerindian Languages are spoken by indigenous peoples from the southern tip of South America to Alaska and Historical linguistics (also called diachronic linguistics) is the study of language change Lyle Richard Campbell (born 1942) is a Linguist who is considered to be one of the foremost experts on Native American languages, especially the Mayan It is located in the Fort Douglas part of the University of Utah campus. Camp Douglas was established in 1862 as a small military garrison about three miles east of Salt Lake City, Utah, for the purpose of protecting the overland mail
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Center for American Indian Languages
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