Posted AT 7:29 PM EDT on 19/01/06
New World, old words
Audiences attending the film, The New World, starring Colin Farrell, this weekend will have a chance to hear something no one has in more than two centuries.
In an attempt the make his interpretation of the story of Pocahontas as accurate as possible, director Terrence Malick commissioned the resurrection of a long-extinct dialect of the Algonquin language. The last time the dialect is known to have been used was in 1785.
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