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Yahgan / Yámana (Háusi Kúta)
Native to: Argentina and Chile
Region: Tierra del Fuego
Ethnicity: 1,700 Yaghan people (2002 census)
Native speakers: 1 (2013) Last speaker was 91 years old in May 2019.
Language family: Language isolate

Yagán also known as Yámana, Háusi Kúta, and Yagankuta, is one of the indigenous languages of Tierra del Fuego, spoken by the Yagán people. It is regarded as a language isolate, although some linguists have attempted to relate it to Kawésqar and Chon.

Yahgan was also spoken briefly on Keppel Island in the Falkland Islands at a missionary settlement.

Following the death of 84-year-old Emelinda Acuña (1921 – October 12, 2005), only one native speaker remains, Cristina Calderón of Villa Ukika on Navarino Island, Chile. Calderón (often referred to as simply Abuela) is the sister-in-law of Acuña. In 2017, Chile's National Corporation of Indigenous Development convened a workshop to plan an educational curriculum in the Yagán language, and in June 2019 it plans to inaugurate a language nest in the community of Bajia Mejillones. The government is also funding the publication of a "concise and illustrated dictionary" of the Yagán language.

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