LINGUIST List 20.608: Documentary 'The Linguists' on PBS

LINGUIST List 20.608
Thu Feb 26 2009 Media: Documentary 'The Linguists' on PBS Editor for this issue: Matthew Lahrman <mattlinguistlist.org>
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Date: 24-Feb-2009 From: Ashley Williams <amw9zvirginia.edu> Subject: Documentary 'The Linguists' on PBS E-mail this message to a friend PBS is broadcasting the documentary 'The Linguists' on Thursday, 2/26, at 10pm. Please check the website for your local listing: 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 Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics General Linguistics Language Documentation Read more issues\|LINGUIST home page\|Top of issue

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