The Linguist’s Calendar: March 25

Ishi

March 25 

1916: Ishi, the last speaker of Yana, dies of tuberculosis in San Francisco.
 
1930: For the first time ever, the session of the Prague Linguistics circle is open to the public, who get to hear Roman Jakobson talk about “Linguistic questions in the work of Masaryk.”
 
2005: Nederveld Associates Inc. presents a plan to build a new town in South Dakota, designed specifically for sign language users.