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Cristina Calderon died on Wednesday, aged 93. She had mastered the Yamana language of the Yagan community and after the death of her family in 2003 was the last person within the world who could speak it An indigenous language from South America’s remotest south has near vanished after the death of its last living speaker and guardian of its ancestral culture. Cristina Calderon failed on Wednesday, aged 93. She had learned the Yamana language of the Yagan community and after the death of her family in 2003 was the last person within the world who could speak it. She worked to save lots of her knowledge by creating a wordbook of the language with paraphrases to Spanish. “ With her, a veritably important part of the artistic memory of our people is gone,” said Lidia Gonzalez, Calderon...