A Chilean Indigenous Language Vanishes as Last Native Speaker Dies

over 2 years in St.Kitts & Nevis Observe

(Reuters)  An indigenous language from South America‘s extreme south has all but vanished after the death of its last living speaker and guardian of its ancestral culture. Cristina Calderon died on Wednesday, aged 93. She had mastered the Yamana language of the Yagan community and after the death of her sister in 2003, was the […]
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