At 82, last fluent Wukchumni speaker spent 7 years typing a 6,000-word dictionary to save her language
deliprao · x · 2026-10-27
Marie Wilcox realized she was the last person on Earth fluent in Wukchumni. At 82, she taught herself to use a computer and spent seven years typing a 6,000-word Wukchumni dictionary — the first written record of the language in history — to keep it from extinction.
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