Imagine trying to learn a language no one speaks.

Lexington County Latin students can relate to this.

You’ve never heard it and have to imagine how words are formed and spoken without any oral recording.

The Wampanoag native American tribe who celebrated the 1st Thanksgiving with our ancestors is reclaiming its lost language.

“Weesowee mahkusunash,” says teacher Siobhan Brown, using the Wampanoag phrase for “yellow shoes” reading to a preschool class.

The Mukayuhsak Weekuw Children’s House is an immersion school run by the-Mashpee Wampanoag tribe.

The language brought us such words as pumpkin, moccasin, skunk, powwow and Massachusetts.

Like hundreds of native tongues, it fell victim to the erosion of native culture.

In the tribe’s government building, tribal elders gather twice a week for an hour-long lesson before lunch.

“Sometimes it goes in one ear and out the other,” confesses Pauline Peters. “The kids at the immersion school correct us all the time.”