Reviving The First Language Ever Spoken In (What's Now) Los Angeles
"Every month [students learning Tongva] gather, practicing pronunciation, mastering the use of particles, singing songs and playing word games under the guidance of Pam Munro, a linguist from UCLA who has been teaching these classes for 15 years. She calls her work 'a reclamation effort' for a language that is no longer used in conversations. […]