SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA, Chile -The dusty main street through San Pedro de Atacama, a tiny town of adobe bricks and whitewashed plaster in Chile’s Atacama Desert, is a whirl of billowing linen shirts, ...

A language that was declared to be extinct seven decades ago may be making a return. Ckunsa was the primary language of one of Chile's Indigenous peoples. As John Bartlett reports, today's speakers ...

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Ilia Reyes Aymani, Kunza researcher and teacher in her home in San Pedro de Atacama, Chile. (Cristóbal Olivares for NPR) SAN PEDRO DE ATACAMA, Chile -The dusty main street through San Pedro de Atacama ...