Documenting Endangered Languages Before They Die

Documenting Endangered Languages Before They Die

Top of Mind with Julie Rose - Season 1, Episode 904 , Segment 3

Kavanaugh Confirmation Turmoil, Endangered Languages, Organ Donation Ethics

Episode: Kavanaugh Confirmation Turmoil, Endangered Languages, Organ Donation Ethics

  • Sep 20, 2018 9:00 pm
  • 23:44:46 mins

Guest: Tyler Peterson, PhD, assistant professor of English at Arizona State University There are thousands of languages spoken around the world, but linguists fear that half of them will be extinct by the end of the century. So researchers are scrambling to document these languages and cultures before they’re gone.