Cristina Calderon

Last Yamana language speaker Cristina Calderon dies in Chile

Calderon, who died aged 93, was last person in world who could speak Yagan community's language and also created its dictionary with translations to Spanish.

In Chile, the last speaker of an ancient language fights to keep it alive

Cristina Calderon, 91, is the last person to speak the millennia-old ancestral Yamana language of the indigenous Yagan community that has long inhabited the remote tip of South America.