How An Octogenarian Preserved An Endangered Native American Language
It ’s easy to take version for deed over when Google can swap between Albanian and Zulu with the suction stop of a button , but even that tech has real world limitation . Marie Wilcoxis the last fluent speaker of Wukchumni , one of 130 different endangered aboriginal American languages in the United States that do n’t have any variety of digital — or analog — bequest . Over the course of seven years in California ’s San Joaquin Valley , she worked with her girl and grandson to catalogue everything she bed about the language ....