20.608, Media: Documentary 'The Linguists' on PBS

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Subject: 20.608, Media: Documentary 'The Linguists' on PBS

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Date: 24-Feb-2009
From: Ashley Williams < amw9z at virginia.edu >
Subject: Documentary 'The Linguists' on PBS
 

	
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From: Ashley Williams [amw9z at virginia.edu]
Subject: Documentary 'The Linguists' on PBS

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PBS is broadcasting the documentary 'The Linguists' on Thursday, 2/26, 
at 10pm.

The film's description from PBS:
The efforts of linguists Greg Anderson and David Harrison to preserve
languages on the brink of extinction are chronicled. Their journeys take
them to Siberia to record Chulym, a dialect now spoken by fewer than 25
people; to India, where an expressive regional language called Sora is
dying out; and to Bolivia to capture a language once spoken by healers to
the Inca emperor.

There was also an interview on NPR's Weekend Edition last Saturday 2/21
with David Harrison & Greg Anderson: 
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100874724 


Linguistic Field(s): Anthropological Linguistics
                     General Linguistics
                     Language Documentation






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