The Linguists: Searching for Endangered Languages Around the World (fwd link)

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The WIP
May 3, 2008

The Linguists: Searching for Endangered Languages Around the World

Jessica Mosby
- USA -

Linguistics, the study of languages, is generally not interesting for people who
are not linguists. Filming the daily work of a linguist – reading and listening
– is an idea better suited for a sleep aid than a 70 minute documentary film.
But The Linguists, which follows the work of Dr. K. David Harrison and Dr.
Gregory Anderson, should not be written off as esoteric. The film’s stars are
more like Indiana Jones-style adventurers traveling to remote locations in
search of undocumented and dying languages than stodgy academics.

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