Lenore A. Grenoble and Lindsay J. Whaley from Dartmouth College give an interesting overview on the linguistic work of Charles W. Furlong who worked on the languages of Tierra del Fuego nearly 100 years ago in their article What Does Digital Technology Have to Do with Yaghan?. The article is also a postulation for the use of digital technology in linguistics.

A highlight for everyone interested in indians of tierra del fuego is the sound recording (Quicktime) contained in the article with a prayer in yaghan, presumably spoken by the famous missionary Thomas Bridges.

See also this older story on the vanishing languages of Tierra del Fuego.

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