The Linguists

Year: 2008

Runtime: 64 mins

Language: English

Directors: Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger

Documentary

David Harrison and Gregory Anderson travel the globe—from Siberia to India and Bolivia—to record the final utterances of languages on the brink of extinction. Their humorous yet moving quest confronts the forces that silence tongues: racism, humiliation, and violent economic unrest, revealing the cultural loss when a language dies.

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