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University of Utah Center for American Indian Languages
TypePublic
Established2004
Location
Salt Lake City
,
Utah
,
USA
CampusMap
Websitewww.cail.utah.edu

The Center for American Indian Languages (CAIL) was a research and outreach arm of the Department of Linguistics at the University of Utah. Its mission was to assist community members in the maintenance and revitalization (where possible) of endangered languages, to document these languages, and to train students to do this sort of work.

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