Thursdays at Mundolingua
A special soirée awaits you every third Thursday of the month at 19:30 at Mundolingua!
Since most of our soirées are in French, please check the page in French. Thank you!
Soirée on the 1st of June 2024
LANGUAGE CITY: THE FIGHT TO PRESERVE ENDANGERED MOTHER TONGUES
Contemporary cities are the most linguistically diverse in history, even as half of the world’s 7000-plus languages are endangered. How did this happen, and what does it mean for the future of language? Ross Perlin, author of the new Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York, describes the race to document and support little-known languages, following six remarkable yet ordinary speakers of endangered languages deep into their communities, from New York’s outer borough neighborhoods to villages on the other side of the world, to learn how they are maintaining and reviving their languages against the odds. He also explores the languages themselves, from rare sounds to sentence-long words to bits of grammar that encode distinctive worldviews.
Ross Perlin, New Arizona Fellow, is a linguist, translator, and writer from New York City, currently serving as co-director of the non-profit Endangered Language Alliance and teaching linguistics at Columbia University.
He is currently writing a book that explores New York City as a last improbable refuge for endangered languages in an age of linguistic loss, centered on six speakers from around the world and their communities.
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