Today is International Mother Language Day and I have a few suggestions for honoring endangered languages. First, you can review
previous posts from our discussion of
Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages
by Mark Abley, where among other things you can find a
link that will teach you how to greet everyone in Manx for the rest of the day. Then for something fresh you can visit UNESCO's fascinating new interactive
Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. Also, NPR
reports on a new documentary,
The Linguists (link opens with sound) which is set to air on some PBS stations Thursday. Looks good, though at least in my neck of the woods it's airing at midnight (fortunately I found I could save it in my Netflix queue).
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