The last speaker of an ANCIENT language has died.
Article here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1248754/Last-member-65-000-year-old-tribe-dies-taking-worlds-earliest-languages-grave.html
Video which includes the sound of the language itself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OEnieIRIuLY
BTW: The speaker & language existed on an ISLAND!!
Please listen to your Grandmother, or an elder, or a foreign language. It is not only the words themselves, but the ideas, history and stories that we shall miss. Especially those we have never heard.
I remember my Vovo, her voice (in Portuguese) her English -which I was always embarrassed by when I was a child. Today I am embarrassed that I didn't/don't speak Portuguese.
Article here:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1248754/Last-member-65-000-year-old-tribe-dies-taking-worlds-earliest-languages-grave.html
Video which includes the sound of the language itself.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=OEnieIRIuLY
BTW: The speaker & language existed on an ISLAND!!
Please listen to your Grandmother, or an elder, or a foreign language. It is not only the words themselves, but the ideas, history and stories that we shall miss. Especially those we have never heard.
I remember my Vovo, her voice (in Portuguese) her English -which I was always embarrassed by when I was a child. Today I am embarrassed that I didn't/don't speak Portuguese.
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