U of T prof wins Killam Prize for work on Slavey language

By Mark Hume, for The Globe and Mail

Linguist preserving threatened languages

Keren Rice. Photo: Diana Tyszko

Keren Rice. Photo: Diana Tyszko

When Professor Keren Rice went North from Toronto in 1973, she entered “a completely different world” in order to study the Slavey language, which was then in danger of slowly dying out in the Mackenzie River Valley, where it had been spoken for thousands of years.

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