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The Last Voice of the Nuu: a South African Great-Grandmother Struggles to Save Her Tongue

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Upington, South Africa Katrina Esau is considered at 92 years of age the last native speaker of nuu, a language native to South Africa of peculiar clicks and clicks that has spent her whole life trying to transmit so that it does not disappear. In her small house raised on the famous reddish soil of the Kalahari desert, on the banks of the Orange River and near Botswana and Namibia, two of her great-grandchildren enthusiastically practice pronun…
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Upington, South Africa Katrina Esau is considered at 92 years of age the last native speaker of nuu, a language native to South Africa of peculiar clicks and clicks that has spent her whole life trying to transmit so that it does not disappear. In her small house raised on the famous reddish soil of the Kalahari desert, on the banks of the Orange River and near Botswana and Namibia, two of her great-grandchildren enthusiastically practice pronun…

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udgtv broke the news in on Saturday, October 25, 2025.
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