Laurie Lewis says there are only 12 fluent Liq’wala speakers left, and she worries that without help, their language will die.
Lewis, speaking on behalf of the Liq’wala Language Revitalization Committee, presented to the Campbell River School District board of education recently the idea of an immersion program that she says would go a long way toward saving a language that has been spoken in this area for thousands of years.
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