I feel nice when I sing this song

Interesting interview with Alexandra Aikhenvald, a linguist who catalogues dying languages:

A student of mine found an old man who said, "Yes, I speak Baré" - an Amazonian language that we thought was extinct. I checked that he knew the few Baré words I knew, then I sat down and talked with him for two months. Senhor Candelário was a great man. He would tell hunting stories, and stories about his life.

His mother had been the only person he could speak Baré with. After she died he kept it alive by talking to himself when he was drunk. So the language had been almost literally pickled in alcohol until I recorded it. When I left we both said: "See you again". Six months later I got news that he had died.