Indigenous Language Interpreters Unite to Fill Gaps

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Indigenous Language Interpreters Unite to Fill Gaps

This article was originally published in Stateline.Bethany Fisher was raised in the Marshall Islands, the daughter of American missionaries who spoke English at home but who insisted that she and her siblings speak the Indigenous language of the island republic everywhere else. The parental say-so proved smart when the family returned to the United States. With the fluency they gained as children, Fisher and her sister Anna followed their mother…