“Behind every word a whole world is hidden that must be imagined.”
-Heinrich Boll.
Another language becomes extinct...lots of worlds dying all at once in Nepal.
Charles Haviland on the last of Dura Speakers.
from the same article ...
"Research can throw up surprises.
Recently the three recorded speakers of another language, Kusunda, all died or disappeared.
But campaigners for indigenous rights went to western Nepal and found a mother and daughter speaking it, and an isolated woman in a different district.
They were brought together, and the woman was able to converse in Kusunda for the first time since 1940, when she was 10 years old. "
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