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There are just two people left who can speak it fluently – but they refuse to talk to each other.

Source: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2011/apr/13/mexico-language-ayapaneco-dying-out

I think that "who can speak it fluently" is a non-restrictive relative clause and that a comma should be before "who". What do you say?

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    No: It's a restrictive relative and no comma is required.
    – BillJ
    Commented Oct 22, 2023 at 8:12
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    Some people have apparently been taught that a restrictive relative clause must begin "that", but that isn't true and "who" is fine.
    – Stuart F
    Commented Oct 22, 2023 at 19:57

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I extract part of the passage:

There are just two people left who can speak it fluently – but they refuse to talk to each other. Manuel Segovia, 75, and Isidro Velazquez, 69, live 500 metres apart in the village of Ayapa ... people who know them say they have never really enjoyed each other's company.

who can speak it fluently has to be a restrictive relative clause.

It is unlikely that a village can have only two people. It is also unlikely that people who know them, shown above, and son and wife in paragraph 5 are not living there.

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If "who can speak it fluently" is a non-restrictive relative clause, it would mean the village has just two people. As I have explained, that is unlikely.

There seems to be a clarification about this story.

Wikipedia

In 2010 a story started circulating that the last two speakers of the Ayapaneco language were enemies and no longer talked to each other. The story was incorrect ...

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