16 February 2022, with the death of Cristina Calderón[1]
Language family
Language isolate
Language codes
ISO 639-3
yag
Glottolog
yama1264
ELP
Yagan
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Yahgan or Yagán (also spelled Yaghan, Jagan, Iakan, and also known as Yámana, Háusi Kúta, or Yágankuta), is an extinct language that is one of the indigenous languages of Tierra del Fuego, spoken by the Yahgan people.[2][3] It is regarded as a language isolate,[4] although some linguists have attempted to relate it to Kawésqar and Chono.
Yahgan was also spoken briefly on Keppel Island in the Falkland Islands at a missionary settlement. In 2017, Chile's National Corporation of Indigenous Development convened a workshop to plan an educational curriculum in the Yahgan language, and in June 2019 it planned to inaugurate a language nest in the community of Bahía Mejillones, near Puerto Williams.[5][6] The government also funded the publication of a "concise and illustrated dictionary" of the Yahgan language.[6]
Following the death of Cristina Calderón (1928–2022) of Villa Ukika on Navarino Island, Chile, no native speakers of Yahgan remain.[1][7]
^ abFallece a los 93 años Cristina Calderón, la última hablante del idioma Yagán (in Spanish)
^"Le yamana « Sorosoro »" (in French). Retrieved 2019-06-09.
^"Yámana". Ethnologue. SIL International. Retrieved 17 November 2023.
^Secretaría de Educación Intercultural Indígena, Unidad de Currículum y Evaluación (2017). Jornada Territorial con Pueblos Originarios: "Desarrollo de Programas de Estudio de 1º básico para la Asignatura de Lengua y Cultura de los Pueblos Originarios": Documento de sistematización pueblo Yagán(PDF) (in Spanish). Chile. Ministerio de Educación.[dead link]
^ ab"Año de las Lenguas Indígenas". lenguasindigenas.ministeriodesarrollosocial.gob.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 2019-06-18. Inicio del "Nido Lingüístico de la Lengua Yagán" con participantes de la Comunidad Yagan de Bahía Mejillones. El proyecto elaborará un Diccionario Conciso e Ilustrado de la lengua Yagán (100 ediciones) y un Documental del trabajo de investigación para la revitalización de la lengua.[dead link]
^Vega, Jorge (31 May 2019). "In Chile's remote south, the last speaker of an ancient language fights to keep it alive". Reuters. Retrieved 3 June 2019.
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