Media: National Geographic WorldTalk Endangered Languages
| Submitter: |
K. David Harrison
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| Submitter Email: | dharris2@swarthmore.edu |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
Language Documentation |
| Media Body: |
National Geographic World Talk host Patty Kim interviews K. David Harrison of Swarthmore College, discussing language extinction, global language diversity, and why we should care. In the interview, David talks about his work on documenting endangered languages in Siberia. He discusses how knowledge is packaged in languages and how traditional cultural knowledge represents the accumulation over many centuries of human observations of nature. As languages die, the human knowledge base erodes. The podcast may be downloaded at: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/podcasts/worldtalk.html Or via free subscription to National Geographic World Talk in i-tunes. |
| Issue Number: | 18.187 |
| Date Posted: | January 17, 2007 |
