LINGUIST List 18.187: National Geographic WorldTalk Endangered Languages

LINGUIST List 18.187
Thu Jan 18 2007 Media: National Geographic WorldTalk Endangered Languages Editor for this issue: Dan Parker <danlinguistlist.org>
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Directory 1. K. David Harrison, National Geographic WorldTalk Endangered Languages Message 1: National Geographic WorldTalk Endangered Languages
Date: 17-Jan-2007 From: K. David Harrison <dharris2swarthmore.edu> Subject: National Geographic WorldTalk Endangered Languages 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. Linguistic Field(s): Language Description Respond to list\|Read more issues\|LINGUIST home page\|Top of issue

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