Not a particularly good start to the International Year of Languages - the last traditional speaker of the Na-Dené Eyak language died yesterday, making the language extinct.

Goodbye Chief Marie Smith Jones, and goodbye Eyak.


2 comments on ' The last traditional speaker of the Eyak language died yesterday '

  1. Thank you for caring.

    Her Daughter,
    Jo Anna

      Written by Jo Anna Westmoreland on February 05, 2008 at 6:43am

  2. Not at all, my condolences, Jo Anna.

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