McLelland, N. (2017). Teacher's guide ("The linguists : a teacher's guide to endangered languages" by K. David Harrison) includes instructions for using the film in a Social Studies curriculum, film highlights, key ideas, key terms, teaching procedures, discussion questions, class activities, take-home assignments & lists of recommended resources. There are over 7,000 languages in the world and many linguists believe they likely all developed from a single source language in the distant past. Get the DVD here: Enigma of Kaspar Hauser DVD 15. âLike modern-day explorers, the two academics featured in The Linguists travel to forgotten places around the globe to unearth rare treasuresâin this case, endangered languages. In the film linguistics produced and Directed by Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller and Jeremy S. Newberger is based on the travesty of two prime on linguistics who decided to go around the world and look for some of the languages ⦠The film follows an unlikely team of linguists into the wilds of an ersatz Patagonia to study the last speakers of a dying language. The Linguists is an independent 2008 American documentary film produced by Ironbound Films about language extinction and language documentation. Teaching and learning foreign languages: A history of language education assessment and policy in Britain. The Linguists is a movie that features some of the languages that are on the brink of dying out, and David Harrison and Gregory Anderson's efforts ⦠Get an introduction to the concept of language families, understand how languages change over time, and discover what linguistics can teach us about our own history. Votes: 232 A Film to Speak. New York, NY: Sundance Film Festival. On Top of the Whale / Het dak van de Walvis (1982) A parody of anthropology, linguistics, and cultural imperialism. There are 7,000 and more languages in the world and more than half of those languages are in danger or they already died. While linguist zoos are seen as one way of maintaining the populations of disappearing language linguists, at least until they can be released back into the wild, others say it is an artificail existence for these linguists, who should be allowed to die out naturally as part and parcel of linguistic progress. The Linguists is a hilarious and poignant chronicle of two scientistsâDavid Harrison and Gregory Andersonâracing to document languages on the verge of extinction. Linguists David Harrison and Greg Anderson travel to isolated regions around the world to chronicle dying languages â and the cultural forces that contribute to their loss. The Linguists. In the rugged landscapes of Siberia, India, and Bolivia, their resolve is tested by institutionalized racism and violent economic unrest. Directors: Seth Kramer, Daniel A. Miller, Jeremy Newberger | Stars: Gregory D.S. The Linguists. [DVD]. Anderson, K. David Harrison. Thanks, Idiomatika. London, UK: Taylor & Francis Group. It follows two linguists, Dr. Gregory D. S. Anderson and Dr. K. David Harrison, as they travel around the world to collect recordings of some of the last speakers of three endangered languages: Chulym in Siberia; Sora in Orissa, India; ⦠David and Greg are "The Linguists," who document languages on the verge of extinction.