Like Dust Thrown

July 29, 2009

The Linguists

Filed under: Linguistics, Video — likedustthrown @ 2:52 pm

‘The Linguists’ is a one hour documentary about two linguists travelling the world documenting dying languages. “Like modern-day explorers, the two academics featured in The Linguists travel to forgotten places around the globe to unearth rare treasures—in this case, endangered languages.” I found the video on Babelgum:

The Linguists – (run-time: 1 hour and 4 minutes)

It’s a great documentation, especially for anyone with interests in linguistics, cultural studies, anthropology or even something like knowledge representation theory. Also, the colours in lots of the tribal footage are really cool, especially in the parts shot in India. You should totally watch it.

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