Croatian Girl Forgets Native Language After Coma, Speaks German Instead

by fyylqm46 on 2012-02-17 13:30:08

It was reported that the girl was only in a coma for 24 hours, and the cause of her unconsciousness still could not be determined. The doctors said it might be due to high fever, according to the Ulanqab Talent Network. Currently, the girl is still hospitalized, and her family visits her every day. However, what troubles them is that the girl cannot understand her parents' words. The hospital had to arrange an interpreter to help the girl communicate with her family and doctors, and even her attending physician is a doctor with a German language background arranged by the hospital.

Suddenly forgetting one's mother tongue has always been a puzzle that troubles the medical community. Dr. Mirash, the girl's attending physician, said: "There have been such cases before where patients who wake up from serious illness or coma suddenly speak another language. If this happened in the past, we might think it was a miracle. But now we believe there must be a logical explanation; we just haven't found it yet." China Daily

According to British media reports on the 13th, a 13-year-old girl from Croatia woke up from a coma recently and suddenly could no longer speak her native Croatian, but could only converse in German.

The girl's parents revealed that before she fell into a coma, their daughter had just started learning German and found reading German books and watching German TV programs quite challenging, and her spoken German was also very unsmooth. However, after she woke up, she completely forgot her native Croatian language and even refused to use it, instead opting to communicate fluently in fluent German.