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andsoitis
on Aug 12, 2022
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Nepal's Kusunda language has no words for "yes" or...
> It also has only one fluent speaker left
I wonder how you can be a fluent speaker if you have nobody to talk to?
pm215
on Aug 12, 2022
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The usual way it works is that you grew up speaking it but everybody else who grew up with you speaking it as a first language died before you did...
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I wonder how you can be a fluent speaker if you have nobody to talk to?