Chaná, a native Argentine language saved from oblivion

How one person kept his native language alive.

This Language Was Long Believed Extinct. Then One Man Spoke Up. (Gift Article)

Blas Jaime has spent nearly two decades resurrecting Chaná, an Indigenous language in Argentina that he learned from his mother.

www.nytimes.com

(Shouldn’t be behind the paywall??)

I found this fascinating, too, @Bombonera , but like you, I have been unable to find any thing that would allow me to hear the sound of the language. I’ll keep looking.

Here’s a TED talk given by Blas Jaime about his life and the language, but it is in Spanish.

El último hablante de la lengua chaná

Blas es Chaná, uno de los pueblos originarios de la zona del Litoral Argentino. Es el último hablante de su lengua que se consideraba extinta hace más de 200…

www.ted.com