<div id="hn-headline" style="margin:0.1em 0px 0.3em;padding:0px;border:0px;font-size:24px;line-height:24px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">Last of Nepal's Kusunda speakers mourns dying language</div>
<p class="hn-byline" style="margin:0.2em 0px 0.4em;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;color:rgb(103,103,103);font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">By Deepak Adhikari (AFP) – <span class="hn-date" style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin-top:0px;padding-top:0px">4 hours ago</span> </p>
<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">KATHMANDU — As Gyani Maiya Sen nears the end of her life she worries that her final words may be the last ever spoken in her mysterious mother tongue.</p>
<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">The 76-year-old, part of a vanishing tribe in remote western Nepal, is the only surviving speaker of Kusunda, a language of unknown origins and unique sentence structures that has long baffled experts.</p>
<p style="margin:0px;padding:0px 0px 1em;border:0px;font-family:Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px;line-height:18px;text-align:left;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">"There's no one else with whom I can speak in my language. I used to speak with my mother but since her death in 1985, I am left alone," she told AFP by telephone.</p>
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