Complex sentence: The last deaf person born into the island's sign language tradition, Eva West, died in 1950, though there were a few elderly residents still able to recall MVSL when researchers started examining the language in the 1980s.
Split into simpler sentences: The last deaf person born into the island's sign language tradition, Eva West, died in 1950. However, there were a few elderly residents still able to recall MVSL when researchers started examining the language in the 1980s.