The Linguists (2008)

Directed by

Jeremy Newberger, Daniel A. Miller, Seth Kramer

Genre

documentary film

Country

United States

Runtime

1h 05m

Rating

7.0 of 10 from 10 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

Two linguists travel to remote places to record languages that are on the verge of disappearing. They meet the last remaining speakers and document their words and stories.

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What happens

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 Odisha, India; and Kallawaya in Bolivia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

Trailer

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