The Last Speakers — Voices Before the Silence

Eyak, Bo, N|uu, Taushiro, Livonian, Chulym: films and footage of the final fluent voices of whole languages — and the people recording them before they go.

Playlist by @living_tongues_atlas

14 tracks, shared on Audicious.

1. Parlez-Vous Eyak? — UNESCO
2. More Than Words....The Life and Language of the Last Eyak Speaker — Laura Spaan
3. Voices of the Great Andamanese (Boa Sr. narration) — Hamamoto
4. The Last Speaker: South Africa’s dying language | Africa Direct Documentary — Al Jazeera English
5. Meet the last speaker of of N|uu, a near-extinct language — Reuters
6. The Last Man to Speak Taushiro in the Amazon — The New York Times
7. Sylbo, The Last Speakers of the Lost Whistling Language | TIME — TIME
8. This Turkish Language Isn’t Spoken, It’s Whistled — Great Big Story
9. The Livonian language — Kolkacape
10. LIVONIAN LANGUAGE — ILoveLanguages!
11. The last of the Livonians — Hein Dielissen
12. How I learned an endangered language—and why it matters | Jonathan Mayers | TEDxBatonRouge — TEDx Talks
13. This Is What Extinction Sounds Like — Great Big Story
14. with Chief Marie Smith Jones — georgemeegan