The Linguists on PBS

PBS (Public Broadcast System) has announced a new documentary film The Linguists for airing on Friday, 2/27/09 on Albany channel 17/WMHT (at 2 am!). I heard a preview on the radio and excerpted this from the NPR website: “The efforts of linguists Greg Anderson and David Harrison to preserve languages on the brink of extinction are chronicled. Their journeys take them to Siberia to record Chulym, a dialect now spoken by fewer than 25 people; to India, where an expressive regional language called Sora is dying out; and to Bolivia to capture a language once spoken by healers to the Inca emperor.”