The final word: Chilean indigenous language vanishes as last speaker dies
Cristina Calderon has died aged 93 and with her the Yamana language, but she created a dictionary for its perpetuity
21 February 2022 - 19:43
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...
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