The Language & Life Project | Lumbee Vocabulary @TheLanguageLifeProject | Uploaded November 2008 | Updated October 2024, 8 hours ago.
Lumbee English is characterized in part by words that you won't hear anywhere else.
An excerpt from "Indian by Birth: The Lumbee Dialect"

Available on our compilation DVD, "The Road Less Traveled":
languageandlife.org/documentaries/indian-by-birth

Learn more about the Lumbee Tribe:
lumbeetribe.com

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ABOUT INDIAN BY BIRTH

Stripped of their heritage language generations ago, the Lumbee Indians of Southeastern North Carolina carved out a unique dialect of English to maintain their distinctive cultural identity.

A film by NEAL HUTCHESON
Executive Producer WALT WOLFRAM

A Production of THE LANGUAGE AND LIFE PROJECT
At North Carolina State University

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