Show Vanishing Languages a. a Nowhere In America has there been such euch a diversity of Indian languages as IlS In California But these languages are now rapidly disappearing Several Several Sev Sev- eral of ot them are known only by five fhe or or thirty six and ad others thera by only twenty living persons and hardly a 11 year passes without some dialect or even language ceasing to exist through the death of the last Individual able to speak it t. t Efforts are being made to record all these languages for the sake of the light they throw on the ancient of the Pacific coast |