Tag: Yagan

• Thursday, February 17th 2022 - 10:09 UTC

  Last living Yagan language speaker dies aged 93; members of her ethnicity lived in the Falklands

  

  The last known living person who spoke Yagan, the language of the indigenous people who inhabited Tierra del Fuego, passed away this week in the Clinics Hospital from Punta Arenas, extreme south of Chile. She was 93, and had to be transported urgently from Puerto Williams to the Magallanes Region capital.