DSc prof. E.D.Suleimenova gave a lecture “Is one person capable of saving an endangered language?” in Al-Farabi Kazakh National University November, 30, 2018. The lecture is devoted to the works of the outstanding phoneticist Cecilia Odé. One of the most important lines of her research is description and preservation of endangered languages, such as the language of the Tundra Yukagirs.