Losing elders to COVID-19 endangers Indigenous languages
EliĂ©zer PuruborĂĄ, one of the last people to grow up speaking the PuruborĂĄ language, died of COVID-19 in Brazil earlier this year. His death at the age of 92 weakened the fragile hold his people have on their language. Indigenous languages in Brazil have been threatened since the Europeans arrived. Only 181 or so of […]
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