Talk:Ofo language
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Last speaker
[edit]It is unknown who exactly the last speaker of Ofo was, but it is probable that it was either Rosa Pierette (the Ofo speaker who Swanton interviewed in 1908 and from whom all our data on Ofo comes from) or someone else from her generation. It was not Thomas Darko, as this article has previously claimed more than once. Last of the Ofos, the source previous contributors have used for this claim, is a novel. A work of fiction. Thomas Darko is a fictional character. He isn't real. Not only this, but the novel Last of the Ofos itself says this on the very first page: "Mrs. Rosa Pierette of Marksville, Louisiana, was the last speaker of her tribe's language, and the last actual Ofo. For the purposes of my story, however, I call on Thomas Darko, an Ofo of my imagination..." (so whoever used this book as a source for Thomas Darko being the last Ofo speaker evidently didn't actually read the book).
The novel also says that Rosa Pierette died in 1915, however I don't know whether prefaces to novels count sufficiently as reliable sources for Wikipedia, so in the meantime I've edited the date of extinction to just say "early 20th century". CMurdock (talk) 19:45, 14 January 2017 (UTC)
Range
[edit]Didn't they also live in parts of Kentucky and West Virginia? 173.88.246.138 (talk) 05:43, 10 March 2022 (UTC)