Nuu, has been around for more than 20k years but it's at risk of becoming extinct.
It's the most endangered language in the world with only one fluent speaker around today, her name is Ouma Katrina Esau.
It is a click language that derives from the San people, who are members of any of the indigenous hunter-gatherer cultures of southern Africa.
In a push to revive the language, Esau has taught her granddaughter and has been working with linguists to preserve the language by creating a digital dictionary of Nuu.
And since May, for the first time in decades, the language is being taught to younger generations with Essau visiting local schools and teaching kids the basics of the click language.
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