<font><font face="georgia,serif">A Road Trip In Search Of America's Lost Languages<br><br>By NPR STAFF<br>6:57 - Listen [media link available]<br>USA<br><br>The vast majority of the 175 indigenous languages still spoken in the United States are on the verge of extinction.<br>
<br>Linguist Elizabeth Little spent two years driving all over the country looking for the few remaining pockets where those languages are still spoken — from the scores of Native American tongues, to the Creole of Louisiana. The resulting book is Trip of the Tongue: Cross-Country Travels in Search of America's Lost Languages.<br>
<br>"I put, I think, 25,000 miles on my poor, long-lost Subaru that has since been consigned to the afterlife for cars," she tells Jackie Lyden, guest host of weekends on All Things Considered.<br><br>Access full article below:<br>
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