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
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
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)
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