Lost Language
Languages are like certain species. When the last remaining member of a culture ceases to exist, everything about them dies with them. Well, that’s exactly what happened to a certain language, which had been lost for 40 years, or so everyone believed. But German geographer Alexander von Humboldt had encountered a parrot who still spoke a few words of a dead language and decided to learn their meaning. So, as it turns out, what was once lost was found again.