| One from the wires |
[Dec. 17th, 2003|10:47 am] |
In Movie spurs interest in 'Missing' dialect, Associated Press has put out a blurb about the film The Missing, and the interest that has followed its use of dialog in Chiricahua, a dialect of Apache featured prominently in the film and which has about 300 fluent speakers left:
Most adult Apaches in the audiences have said they could understand every word of the Chiricahua dialect --and the children suddenly wished they could, too.
That's what Mescalero councilman Berle Kanseah and Chiricahua linguist Elbys Hugar intended as technical advisers for the Ron Howard film, a tough tale of 19th century frontier life starring Tommy Lee Jones and Cate Blanchett that has been in theaters for about three weeks.
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