A university professor says she hopes to better understand the Denesuline language through a new research project.
Dr. Olga Lovick of the First Nations University of Canada plans to record people speaking the language to one another.
She wants to see how people act while they’re speaking and how they switch between the language and English.
Lovick says Denesuline is actually one of the bigger First Nations languages out there with 15,000 speakers in four main areas.
She plans to start her project in northern Saskatchewan.
Lovick says her assistant could be in Dillon as early as next week.
They have a year to do the project.