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In March 2016,a group of people walked into a theater in New Mexico,USA to watch the movie Finding Nemo.The movie first hit the big screen in 2003 and it was a great success.Now it came back!What was (1)
special
special
about it this time?It was dubbed (配音) in Navajo.That's the (2)
language
language
spoken by the Navajo,one of the biggest Native American tribes (美洲土著部落).This movie wasn't made (3)
just
just
for fun,though.It was made to (4)
save
save
a dying language.
The (5)
number
number
of people who speak Navajo is dropping.In 2014,only about 164,000 people (6)
spoke
spoke
it at home.That was down from about 173,000 in 2005.
Like many other Native American languages,Navajo has been in trouble (7)
for
for
a long time.In the 1800 s,thousands of Native American kids were forced (強(qiáng)迫) to attend boarding schools.They (8)
were allowed
were allowed
to speak only English there.Over the years,fewer people learned (9)
their
their
native languages.Some of these languages have been lost forever.
Today,many Navajo kids aren't good at speaking Navajo.Some people (10)
worry
worry
that if today's kids don't learn Navajo and pass it down,the language could disappear (消失).