A 10,000-year-old language is about to be extinct
Among the ancient peoples who lived in the continent of Latin America, there was the so-called Yajan people, one of the Indian peoples living in the southern part of the continent, who are considered the most populous people in the southern hemisphere.
The people of Elijan, one of the oldest peoples of the earth, still exist, despite its small number, but it has a cultural specificity and language, but most of it now speaks French, coexists with the new immigrants of the continent, and very little. Isolated in the world.
According to reports published by The Sun newspaper, "Elijan" is one of the oldest languages in the world and is about to die or die because its only spokeswoman is the "old" grandmother of 91-year-old Chilean Christina Calderon.
The entire Yajan culture is expected to be extinct unless enough effort is made to save the 10,000-year-old language. Christina Calderon is the last living survivor of the Yajan people, the indigenous people in the far south of South America, where they lived for more than 10 years. Thousands of years.
Calderon, 91, is the last survivor of Yamana, the language of the Yajan people for thousands of years.
"There were a lot of Elijans, my father and my mother were of this people so when boys were speaking his language, so I grew up," says Calderon.
Calderón learned Spanish only when she was nine years old.
In 2009, the Chilean government recognized Calderon as a "living human treasure".
UNESCO awards this award to individuals who believe that they "have the high knowledge and skills to perform or re-establish specific elements of intangible cultural heritage."
It is believed that some 3,000 Gypsies were present in the middle of the 19th century, according to ancient origins, and European colonization led to the transmission of the disease to areas of South America, causing the loss of the Yagans to much of their land.
Calderon is now using her mother tongue in an attempt to share her ancient origin with her relatives, and the language is being widely codified and taught, in the hope that the Yagans will live long after Calderon's death.
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