In Guyana, saving an Indigenous language from dying out with its last speakers

The Carib language is slowly disappearing from the villages of its descendants in Guyana. But in the remote village of Kwebana in the country’s Barima-Waini region, a schoolteacher, a community health worker and a group of women are pursuing revival efforts to save the language of their community. Kwebana is a sprawling village of vast […]

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