The Most Endangered Language Has Just One Living Speaker, And She’s Trying to Save It

Pierre Van ZylPlanet

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Ninety-one-year-old Katrina Esau is the last known speaker of N|uu. Years of colonialism and apartheid had almost wiped out this indigenous South African language. As a young girl, Katrina was told to be ashamed of her native tongue and instead speak Afrikaans. But as an adult, Esau set out to preserve N|uu by founding a […]

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