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<div id='article-page'><div id='article-content' data-media-url='//news-app-staging.s3.amazonaws.com' data-base-url='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com' data-sound-name='https://news-app-production.s3.amazonaws.com/articles/3338/8e15135b-95af-4845-b9d9-8495fa519ed8_hq.wav' data-capture-url='//staging.analytics.lingraphica.com/events/capture_news' data-article-title='New Words Help Bring Back Native Languages' data-article-id='3851'><script src='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/javascripts/getscripts.js'></script><link rel='stylesheet' href='//news-app-staging.herokuapp.com/stylesheets/article.css' type='text/css' /><div class='article'><p><span data-start-time='0' data-end-time='8542'>Native Americans spoke as many as 300 languages at one time in history.</span> <span data-start-time='8542' data-end-time='18292'>But centuries of conflict, forced removal and forced assimilation killed half of the languages.</span> <span data-start-time='18292' data-end-time='28333'>Bringing back a dead language is a big job, but making sure it survives is just as much work.</span> <span data-start-time='28333' data-end-time='37292'>Jessie Little Doe Baird is a co-founder of the Wopanaak Language Reclamation Project.</span> <span data-start-time='37292' data-end-time='49125'>The award-winning linguist is also a citizen of the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe in the American state of Massachusetts.</span> <span data-start-time='49125' data-end-time='62167'>In the 1600s, Wopanaak, the language of her ancestors, was spoken by tens of thousands of people in southeastern New England.</span> <span data-start-time='62167' data-end-time='73125'>Baird said missionaries worked with the tribe to create written alphabets in order to translate the Bible and other books.</span> <span data-start-time='73125' data-end-time='87229'>She said the Wampanoag people welcomed the idea of writing and soon “used it as a tool to protect themselves” during land deals and other situations.</span> <span data-start-time='87229' data-end-time='95000'>“We have the largest collection of Native-written documents in North America,” she said.</span> <span data-start-time='95000' data-end-time='107354'>Baird said her organization has been working for about 25 years to bring back the language that died out a century ago.</span> <span data-start-time='107354' data-end-time='114375'>It has put together around 12,000 words from those early documents.</span> </p></div><div class='control-buttons-sticky' style='display:none;'><div class='control-buttons'><button title='Back' class='back' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Play' class='play' disabled='disabled'></button><button title='Pause' class='pause' style='display:none;'></button><button title='Forward' class='forward' disabled='disabled'></button><button class='finished-reading' style='display:none;'>Done</button></div></div></div><div id='article-media'><div id='media-image'><img 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