A Road Trip In Search Of America's Lost Languages (fwd link)

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A Road Trip In Search Of America's Lost Languages

By NPR STAFF
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The vast majority of the 175 indigenous languages still spoken in the
United States are on the verge of extinction.

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.

"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.

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