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🌱 Patch AM: How Gilroy connects to a lost Indigenous language now being revived

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  • How Gilroy connects to a lost Indigenous language now being revived

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📰 News we're reading

• 20 languages that went extinct in the last century (qz.com) — Gilroy appears here as part of the historic homeland of the Mutsun-speaking Amah Mutsun people, whose last fluent speaker, Ascención Solórsano, once lived in town. The piece traces 20 Indigenous and minority languages worldwide that lost their last native speakers in the past century, while highlighting how communities, including those around Gilroy, are now working to revive them from old notes and recordings.
   

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