To be the last remaining speaker of a language...

Language Matters focuses on an elderly man who is the last person on earth to speak the language he grew up with. The kind of loneliness he must feel is barely visible in his dignified face, as he calmly delivers halting explanations of living words that will soon be lost.It's because a language is more than words that no academic transcription can ever capture the essence of a language that was once alive.

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