Today's Times has a story about linguists and anthropologists who try to recreate "dead" languages.
Linguists Find the Words, and Pocahontas Speaks Again
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Published: March 7, 2006
See especially the chart, "Giving Voice to Lost Language", which shows the recreation of some Algonquian words that eventually passed into English, like raccoon and tomahawk.
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