Thanks to the Internet, linguistic anthropologists today have a forum for alerting the public and activists when a language is in danger of becoming extinct. But while the worldwide web has opened up avenues of communication and support for even the most obscure tongues, it has also served as a tool for the proliferation of…
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This week we’re happy to feature a guest post by Christine Mladic Janney, an LATG community member and the director of an upcoming documentary titled “Living Quechua.” This project draws attention to one woman’s struggle to preserve her endangered native language – Quechua – in New York City, a place referred to as “a graveyard…
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I am constantly amazed, the longer I study languages and linguistics, at the wealth insight that can be acquired by learning even a small amount of another language. It’s easy for those of us who grew up as monolinguals in parts of the world where our languages reign supreme, to take for granted that which…
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