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Rachel Berwick - May-por-e' - 1 views

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Language Part 1 Language Death Humboldt's Parrot Maypure

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    Art installation based on a parrot said to have been found by German naturalist Alexander van Humboldt, which was the last surviving "speaker" of Maypure.
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Humboldt's parrot | Omniglot blog - 1 views

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Language Part 1 Language Death Humboldt's Parrot Maypure

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    In 1799 the German naturalist and explorer Alexander von Humboldt (1769-1859) was exploring the Orinoco and Amazon rivers and documenting the languages and cultures of the tribes he encountered there. He was given a parrot which was apparently the last surviving 'speaker' of the Maypure language.
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