 l t t t t t t t t t t kasi, meko me kasi. And that's, that's not all. There were ten groups, ten communities of youths who were moved here. Now we're down to three. Of course I know the language is just about to disappear. We're trying to bring it back by teaching the young ones. Yeah, our own origin story is that youths came from the sun and in our language we're called zo'yaha, which means children of the sun. But we do feel like God gave us our language and it's up to us to carry it on. And some of the elders tell us that God only hears us when we pray in youthy. So it's a really strong connection spiritually. Even now when I pray, I'd rather pray in youthy. I'd rather sing my songs in youthy because it seems like it's just, the Lord is just so much closer. And I just feel, you know, I can feel differently when I sing English songs. The youthy language has been suppressed for generations. When my grandmother grew up, not knowing how to speak English, she went to the Uchi Mission boarding school here in Sopopa, where the high school now is. And that was where kids were punished if they spoke their language. Ako! Ujiha i wede o ta'ina, Ujiha go wede neg akanichi ke o ganfejen, son kenok enji. Ka sotnechi kere i tahu hla, beshen a abenchi, na no wole na. Ugele saga, oha haniina, kifaiiga, Ujiha go wede neg e o non zotani. Eventually we began to understand that really the only way to develop full competency in the language was to do it through immersion methods, to stay all in the language during the entire time that the learning is going on. Rather than trying to use English to teach Uchi, we began to use the Uchi language to teach Uchi. Nobody else on the earth can speak the way you do and that's how I felt about it when I first came on is that I need to learn this language real quick and try to get as much knowledge as I can because you never know which one's going to leave, one of our elders is going to leave because someday they're going to be gone. I feel sad. Very sad. Now, it sounds like I've been on the man's speaker. If there's any more our elders that come forth and help out, but we can't find any of the answers. If we don't learn it now, it's going to be lost and that's a huge responsibility. Our joy and challenge is to bring back, revitalise our language, keep it alive in the community, carry it forward so that our children and our grandchildren can also say, Uchi ha ne no, son ke ne no. We Uchi people, we are still here. Ane, Uchi ha no. We have the meaning of no time. We're handy. Ta hei ech mung api. Ake do le. Oh yeah, sure, thank you.