21.2084, Media: Documenting Endangered Languages in New York City

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Subject: 21.2084, Media: Documenting Endangered Languages in New York City

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Date: 03-May-2010
From: Elizabeth Pyatt < ejp10 at psu.edu >
Subject: Documenting Endangered Languages in New York City
 

	
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Date: Mon, 03 May 2010 17:27:30
From: Elizabeth Pyatt [ejp10 at psu.edu]
Subject: Documenting Endangered Languages in New York City

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This is a New York Times article of April 29, 2010 about a CUNY effort to
record endangered languages with speakers who have settled in New York city.
According to the article, some endangered languages have more speakers living in
New York than in the original homeland.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/nyregion/29lost.html?ref=general&src=me&pagewanted=all



Linguistic Field(s): General Linguistics
                     Language Documentation





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