Media: Documentary 'The Linguists' on PBS
| Submitter: |
Ashley Williams
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| Submitter Email: | amw9z@virginia.edu |
| Linguistic Field(s): |
General Linguistics Language Documentation Anthropological Linguistics |
| Media Body: |
PBS is broadcasting the documentary 'The Linguists' on Thursday, 2/26, at 10pm. Please check for local listings: http://www.pbs.org/thelinguists/airdates.html The film's description from PBS: The efforts of linguists Greg Anderson and David Harrison to preserve languages on the brink of extinction are chronicled. Their journeys take them to Siberia to record Chulym, a dialect now spoken by fewer than 25 people; to India, where an expressive regional language called Sora is dying out; and to Bolivia to capture a language once spoken by healers to the Inca emperor. There was also an interview on NPR's Weekend Edition last Saturday 2/21 with David Harrison & Greg Anderson: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100874724 |
| Issue Number: | 20.608 |
| Date Posted: | February 24, 2009 |
