The XXI century is bound to witness a mass extinction of languages, where approximately 40% of the 7000+ languages of the world are forecast to disappear altogether in the next 100 years. The languages of Brazil are no exception to the grim prediction, given that roughly 85% of them have less than 1000 speakers. I will focus on the Bororo of Central Brazil, a well-known indigenous ethnicity thanks to the work of Claude Lévi-Strauss—in particular in Tristes Tropiques and Le Cru et le Cuit. Through a compilation of examples drawn from the Bororo languages and beyond, I argue, in line with Krauss (2007), that with every dying language, a unique perspective, a unique way of understanding, of relating to, and of interacting with the Universe, is forever lost. The question that remains is then “Kodi boe ure oino?”, or, freely translated “Why does it have to be this way?”