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| ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6316 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes  2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French | Message 1 of 5 02 May 2008 at 1:45am | IP Logged | ||
Just stumbled across a documentary, that apparently aired at the 2008 Sundance Festival, sometime last month. It's about a group of linguists who go out and travel to find speakers of the world's most endangered languages. It looks really fascinating.
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| andee Tetraglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7077 days ago 681 posts - 724 votes 3 sounds Speaks: English*, German, Korean, French | Message 2 of 5 02 May 2008 at 2:05am | IP Logged | ||
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Looks interesting.
I dream than one day I can do likewise for the Trans-New Guinea Languages. All being overrun by Indonesian and Tok Pisin :( 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6316 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French | Message 3 of 5 09 May 2008 at 10:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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Here's a YouTube interview with one of the linguists in the film, talking about language extinction and also his book "When Languages Die: The Extinction of the World's Languages and the Erosion of Human Knowledge" ~ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nmLYo8zQOVs&feature=related
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| kottoler.ello Tetraglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6003 days ago 128 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Mandarin, French Studies: Japanese, German | Message 4 of 5 19 June 2008 at 12:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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I saw this movie, at the AFI Film Festival in Dallas.
It was really quite good, they went to quite a few places around the world and it showed how they work to document the dying languages, and why. It was a good movie, I would recommend it to anyone interested in languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| TheMatthias Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6246 days ago 105 posts - 124 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Mandarin | Message 5 of 5 22 June 2008 at 10:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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When does it come out on DVD?
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