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The Linguists is a american film of genre Documentary released in USA on 17 january 2008

The Linguists (2008)

The Linguists
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Released in USA 17 january 2008
Length 1h4
OriginUSA
Rating71% 3.568523.568523.568523.568523.56852

The Linguists is an independent 2008 American documentary film produced by Ironbound Films about language extinction and language documentation. It follows two linguists, Greg Anderson of the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages and David Harrison of Swarthmore College, as they travel around the world to collect recordings of some of the last speakers of several moribund (dying) languages: Chulym in Siberia; Chemehuevi in Arizona, U.S.; Sora in Orissa, India; and Kallawaya in Bolivia.
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