What we lose when a language dies
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In north-western Turkey lies a tombstone to a man named Tevfik Esenç, who died in 1992. It commemorates him as the last member of the Ubykh ethnic group who was able to speak the Ubykh language. In a final tape recording made before his death, we hear his valedictory words: “This is how I end Ubykh. May God grant you goodness and beauty! The Ubykh language ends here.” In Ecuador, Martha, a social worker, is encouraging midwives and expectant parents to speak the Kichwa language to babies in the
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