The Last Speaker: South Africa’s dying language

Compiling a dictionary of click-based phrases, Claudia works to save lots of her grandmother’s dying San, or Bushman, language.

Claudia Snyman is a language researcher in South Africa and her grandmother, Katrina Esau, is the final remaining fluent speaker of N|uu, the traditional language of the San, or Bushman, individuals.

Collectively they work painstakingly on a dictionary of the click-based phrases of this disappearing language, believed to be 25,000 years previous. As soon as oppressed and derided in colonial occasions, they're decided that it'll come again from the brink of extinction and into modern-day use.

Nadine Angel Cloete is an award-winning South African filmmaker who focuses on themes of id and historical past. Her function documentary, Motion Kommandant, received a number of awards throughout Africa and america. She additionally directs fiction movies.

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