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FYI, the Wikipedia article currently states:

> The last fully fluent speaker of Kiksht, Gladys Thompson, died in July 2012

Which is from https://web.archive.org/web/20191010153203/http://www.opb.or...

Maybe there are some sources talking about fully fluent people still being alive? As currently the article gives the impression they were the last person to "fully" speak it.

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I’m aware and I think people do not care much to correct it. The tribe has had consistently bad experiences with outsiders attempting to document this kind of thing and I sense that people are mostly wanting to be left alone at this point. There is some possibility that I would make a different decision, but it’s not for me to decide, it’s for the elders.

This is the way ;)

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