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Profile

Is anything sadder than the death of the last speaker of a language?

I study Native American languages. I have a very sad job.

Five Osage speakers remain in Oklahoma; two Siuslaw speakers in Oregon; one Serrano speaker in California. In 50 years forty languages will have died forever in this country.

My other job, the one I don't get paid for, is seeing that the rest of our languages do not follow them. That job is much less sad.