Friday, March 4, 2011

Language researchers chart vanishing voices - video

In a video produced by Cambridge University, anthropologist Mark Turin discusses his work helping speakers of Thangmi, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in eastern Nepal. He aims to document disappearing languages, most of which haven't been written down before, as part of the World Oral Literature Project.



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References:

2011. "Language researchers chart vanishing voices - video". Guardian. Posted: February 22, 2011. Available online: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2011/feb/22/language-researchers-vanishing-voices-video

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