And then there were none...

The 'last' fluent speaker of Jawoyn passed away early this week. She was from Barunga and Francesca Merlan had worked with her intensively in the past.

Bobala.

Wamut has written about what it means to call a language 'extinct', and he describes a fair bit of use of Ngandi, despite there no longer being any living 'fluent' speakers.

In the case of Jawoyn however, there hasn't been much language use or activity for a number of years. I think there are a number of people who could speak it fairly well, but they don't do so often.

Bobala jet langguj.