Wampanoag: Reviving the language 

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It was way way more than that. look whose delivering that message!!

The language already has died, they are trying to revitalize it.

@@aubreygraham5821😂😂😂. Exactly

No. Waste of time.

No... trust me, coming from the daughter of the woman who revived the dead Wampanoag language from nothing but texts such as Wampanoag bibles, as I am Wampanoag, I can tell you the first Bible was in Wampanoag and printed on the Harvard printing press.

@@maealicebaird9561 Hello, Does your translation project have a website, or something similar? I would love to learn more about this movement

@@maealicebaird9561 due to the fact that all other dialects of Massachusett have gone extinct its become customary to refer to Massachusett as Wopanaotaok. Yes the Elliot Bible was written in the language spoken now as Wampanoag, but the dialect of the language it was writen in was that of the Natick people. That is not to discredit the tradition but from a linguistic sense Wampanoag and Natick were two similar dialects of a common language, Massachusett

⁠@@corpsefoot758 I realize I’m a little responding here, but see if you can find the independent film called We Still Live Here. Might be available through PBS. It chronicles how this movement was started. Very good film!

Facts

Massachusett and Wampanoag are two different languages

Lmao, the woman who revived this language is my mother, yet I picked French and Latin because Wampanoag wasn’t an option... and I’m already fluent :/

You don't make ppl come to Christ by taking their language, banning their cultural practice and taking their land. To spread the good news of Christ you don't take you give🤦

@@karenaugustus6219 You are right, sharing the Good News of Jesus is giving, not taking & no, not one of us can make a person come to Jesus. John Elliot, who translated the Bible gave his every breath for the great commission~what a brilliant, courageous, humble & Godly man!

@@kathleenmcmahon3048 The fact religious people can destroy an entire culture and call it good terrifies me.

Well that was incredibly tone deaf, at best. I don't think there's anything I can say to you to make you see how toxic this mindset is. You think non-christians are missing something and it's your job to see that they get it (whether they want it or not). Imagine someone of any other faith doing the same thing to you. Pestering you about why their religion is so great and they're concerned for your soul trying to get you to come to their house of worship etc. Would you appreciate that? I doubt it.

I'd love to see how well you would have maintained in an Indian school nutty

I’m guessing you don’t say that to students learning early European history, which also won’t help them in the slightest become a software developer.

@@britwilliams-vanklooster4233 There are tons of wasteful topics taught in school that don’t benefit students much. But this one really takes the cake as being the most useless I’ve probably ever seen. Why would you revive a dead niche language with no written records? At least if you learn Latin, there are literally TONS of important historical records scattered around the globe in Latin + romance languages + the legacy of the Romans. Learning this random native language creates literally zero opportunity to do anything useful to the world. It’s a silly curiosity.