{"id":141747,"date":"2022-02-19T15:05:29","date_gmt":"2022-02-19T09:35:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/?p=141747"},"modified":"2022-04-06T16:36:01","modified_gmt":"2022-04-06T11:06:01","slug":"yamana-language-dies-with-the-death-of-cristina-calderon-being-the-last-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/?p=141747","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Yamana Language Dies With The Death Of Cristina Calderon Being The Last Guardian&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"2a6a8c3593e6620bd92d71f585bdd19b\" data-index=\"4\" style=\"float: none; margin:10px 0 10px 0; text-align:center;\">\n<script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6453632170035383\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- NEW RESPONSIVE -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6453632170035383\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"2960496911\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\n<\/div>\n<p>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\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/img.onmanorama.com\/content\/dam\/mm\/en\/news\/world\/images\/2022\/2\/18\/chile-language1.jpg\" alt=\"A Chilean indigenous language vanishes as last native speaker dies | World News | Onmanorama\" width=\"616\" height=\"321\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She worked to save lots of her knowledge by creating a wordbook of the language with paraphrases to Spanish. \u201c With her, a veritably important part of the artistic memory of our people is gone,\u201d said Lidia Gonzalez, Calderon\u2019s predecessor, on Twitter. Gonzalez is one of all the representatives presently drafting a backup constitution in Chile. \u201c The wordbook, still, meant there was a possibility of conserving the language in some form,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c Although together with her unfortunate death, a wealth of especially precious empirical knowledge is lost in verbal terms, the liability of delivering and marshaling the language remains open,\u201d she said. Although there are still some dozen Yagans left, over the generations people from the community stopped learning the language, which was considered \u201c insulated\u201d since it was problematic to see the origin of its words.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/kor.ill.in.ua\/m\/610x385\/2712206.jpg\" alt=\"Chile's last speaker of Yagan Indian language dies - Perild\" width=\"616\" height=\"389\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Calderon lived in a simple house and made a living selling knitted socks within the Chilean city of Villa Ukika, a city created by the Yagan people on the outskirts of Puerto Williams. The ancestral group habituated people the archipelagos of South America\u2019s extreme south, now Chile and Argentina, a part which nudges towards the frozen Antarctic.<\/p>\n\n<div style=\"font-size: 0px; height: 0px; line-height: 0px; margin: 0; padding: 0; clear: both;\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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\u2019s remotest south has near vanished after the death of its last living [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":141796,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[{"category_id":36,"category_link":"https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/?cat=36","category_name":"Article"},{"category_id":37,"category_link":"https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/?cat=37","category_name":"Events"},{"category_id":1265,"category_link":"https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/?cat=1265","category_name":"International"}],"tags":[{"tag_id":3332,"tag_link":"https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/?tag=argentina","tag_name":"argentina"},{"tag_id":3330,"tag_link":"https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/?tag=chilean-city","tag_name":"chilean city"},{"tag_id":3328,"tag_link":"https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/?tag=cristina-calderon","tag_name":"cristina calderon"},{"tag_id":3329,"tag_link":"https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/?tag=south-america","tag_name":"south america"},{"tag_id":3331,"tag_link":"https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/?tag=villa-ukika","tag_name":"villa ukika"},{"tag_id":3327,"tag_link":"https:\/\/www.caravanalive.com\/?tag=yamana-language","tag_name":"yamana language"}],"class_list":["post-141747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-article","category-events","category-international","tag-argentina","tag-chilean-city","tag-cristina-calderon","tag-south-america","tag-villa-ukika","tag-yamana-language"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>&quot;Yamana Language Dies With The Death Of Cristina Calderon Being The Last Guardian&quot;<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"&quot;Yamana Language Dies With The Death Of Cristina Calderon Being The Last Guardian&quot;. 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