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 last person in the world who could speak it. She worked to save her knowledge by creating a dictionary of the language with translations to Spanish."With her an important part of the cultural memory of our people is gone," said Lidia Gonzalez, Calderon's daughter, on Twitter.
"Although with her departure a wealth of especially valuable empirical knowledge is lost in linguistic terms, the possibility of rescuing and systematizing the language remain open," she said.Read MoreAlthough there are still a few dozen Yagans left, over the generations people from the community stopped learning the language, which was considered"isolated" since it was difficult to determine the origin of its words.
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