Chile High School Students Preserves Patagonian Indigenous Langauges (fwd link)

[jess tauber]

This story has been floating around various media outlets over the past several months. I wrote several times to one of his mentors (who works with Mapudungan/Mapuche) to find out more, but never heard back. I'm wondering whether he's for real or just basking in the attention.

In the meantime a real linguistics student, Yoram Meroz, is heading for Tierra del Fuego to work with the last Yahgan speaker, Cristina Calderon, for two months. A hopeful sign of things to come?

Jess Tauber
phonosemantics at earthlink.net