April
01
/ 2019
Among the six to seven thousand languages spoken in the world today, about five thousand of them are spoken by indigenous people living in North and South America, Africa, Oceania, and parts of Asia. They are also the most endangered as one indigenous language passes into oblivion about every fourteen days. This is the case with the Resigaro language which only has one remaining speaker, a 65-year-old man, after the only other speaker was murdered. In November 2016, 67-year-old Rosa Andrade was found beheaded in her home in the Peruvian Amazon. Her killer has not been found, though her community suspects that it was an outsider. The reason for the murder is also mysterious. Last of the Resigaro Rosa was
