Dirk the Big Dog's Opinions: Vanishing Languages - Photo Gallery - Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine

25 June 2012

Vanishing Languages - Photo Gallery - Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine

Charlie “Red Hawk” Thom is a medicine man and ceremonial leader. He says that English goes in one ear and out the other: it never touches the heart. Karuk, he says, begins in the heart and moves to the mind. To say you love something, you say ick-ship-eee-mihni. “This is serious,” he says. “If you tell a woman eee-mihni then, well, you’d better be ready to marry her.”

Vanishing Languages - Photo Gallery - Pictures, More From National Geographic Magazine

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