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16 December 2012 at 2:01pm | IP Logged

Saw this on the BBC website this morning: New York, A Graveyard for Languages

The article talks about endangered languages and why New York is a great place to study them. Excerpt:

BBC wrote:

"Home to around 800 different languages, New York is a delight for linguists, but also provides a rich hunting ground for those trying to document languages threatened with extinction... But as I have discovered, New York is not just a city where many languages live, it is also a place where languages go to die, the final destination for the last speakers of some of the planet's most critically endangered speech forms.

The article also includes a couple of minutes of an audio interview with one of the researchers.

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