The Last Speaker: South Africa’s dying language | Africa Direct Documentary

The Last Speaker: South Africa’s dying language | Africa Direct Documentary

Claudia Snyman is a language researcher in South Africa and her grandmother, Katrina Esau, is the last remaining fluent speaker of N|uu, the ancient language of the San, or Bushman, people.

Together they work painstakingly on a dictionary of the click-based words of this disappearing language, believed to be 25,000 years old. Once…

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