The Linguists Battles Language Extinction on Web (fwd link)

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The Linguists Battles Language Extinction on Web

By Scott Thill April 20, 2009
USA

After generating serious buzz and heat upon its release last year,
language-extinction documentary The Linguists has but one territory left to
explore in its quest to raise awareness of its decidedly non-blockbuster
subject matter: the internet.

That ends Monday, when the acclaimed documentary premieres online at brainy
video site Babelgum.

"We want the film to reach a broad audience and this is a way to do that," said
David Harrison, associate professor of linguistics at Swarthmore College and
one of the scientists featured in the documentary. "The internet, used
strategically, has enormous capacity to help get the word out, and to help
sustain and support small languages."

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