{"id":4536,"date":"2024-02-14T18:01:35","date_gmt":"2024-02-14T18:01:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/by-preserving-the-language-you-reinforce-communities-a-school-saving-one-of-louisianas-oldest-dialects\/"},"modified":"2024-02-14T18:01:35","modified_gmt":"2024-02-14T18:01:35","slug":"by-preserving-the-language-you-reinforce-communities-a-school-saving-one-of-louisianas-oldest-dialects","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/by-preserving-the-language-you-reinforce-communities-a-school-saving-one-of-louisianas-oldest-dialects\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018By preserving the language, you reinforce communities\u2019: a school saving one of Louisiana\u2019s oldest dialects"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Preserving Indian French, as community members call it, has taken on new urgency as climate-related hurricanes and coastal erosion threaten to displace the tribe<\/p>\n<p>On a recent morning in the southern Louisiana town of Bourg, Cynthia Owens reviewed flashcards with her kindergarten class.<\/p>\n<p>She held up an image of a crocodile. \u201c<em>Ca\u00efman<\/em>\u201d, she said, using the word for crocodile spoken by Indigenous tribes in the region. <em>Ca\u00efman<\/em>, her nine students repeated. Then: \u201c<em>Crocodile<\/em>\u201d,<em> <\/em>she said, using the French term<em>. Crocodile, <\/em>responded the chorus of fidgety five- and six-year-olds.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2024\/feb\/14\/louisiana-school-indigenous-cajun-languages-community-impact\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Preserving Indian French, as community members call it, has taken on new urgency as climate-related hurricanes and coastal erosion threaten to displace the tribe On a recent morning in the southern Louisiana town of Bourg, Cynthia Owens reviewed flashcards with her kindergarten class. She held up an image of a crocodile. \u201cCa\u00efman\u201d, she said, using &#8230; <a title=\"\u2018By preserving the language, you reinforce communities\u2019: a school saving one of Louisiana\u2019s oldest dialects\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2024\/02\/14\/by-preserving-the-language-you-reinforce-communities-a-school-saving-one-of-louisianas-oldest-dialects\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about \u2018By preserving the language, you reinforce communities\u2019: a school saving one of Louisiana\u2019s oldest dialects\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4536\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}