51.   In fact, Galderisi, Naveda and Welton often seem to communicate among themselves better than with the coaches and other players, though their native tongues are different.

52.   In Alaska, there are only three households in which the native tongue Kuskokwim still prevails.

53.   In Miami, where Spanish-speaking refugees arrive daily, children are thrust into the public schools knowing only their native tongue.

54.   In recent decades, missionaries have encouraged Arhuaco children to wear western clothes and speak Spanish instead of their native tongue.

55.   Indeed, some would argue that English at work drives Europeans back to their native tongues.

56.   It is a painful irony for the code talkers that the current generation of young people in the Navajo Nation seem to be losing their native tongue.

57.   It prohibited an elected official, for example, from speaking to his Navajo constituents in their native tongue while on state or local business.

58.   Julia Avila received a letter in Spanish, her native tongue, from a child in Green Forest.

59.   Kargacin told him to try it in his native tongue.

60.   Levesque remembers the shock of showing up at the Sacred Heart School to discover that his native tongue was forbidden.