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Battle to save the last of Nepal's Dura speakers
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Soma Devi Dura is blind, partly deaf and in failing health. At
the age of 82 she is also the last direct link to one of the
hundreds of Asia's indigenous languages threatened by extinction.
Mrs Dura is believed to be the last remaining speaker of Dura,
the language once spoken by the Nepalese ethnic group from which
both she and the language she alone can speak take their names. The
only other known speaker of Dura died last August.
Scrambling to complete a dictionary of the lang...
