Last Native Klallam Speaker Dies

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Last Native Klallam Speaker Dies

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Exactly what it says on the title
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Sad, and unfortunately, way too common. :(
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Makes me want to learn Klallam.
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Very sad, but I had been expecting this for a while now. IIRC, Timothy Montler's Klallam website seems to indicate that there were 4 native speakers in the 90s (or maybe early 2000s)-- two men and two women-- and I knew that at least both men had already died. Nəxʷsƛ'ay'əmúcən is my favorite Salishan language, and Montler has said that a grammar is in the works.
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