Columbia: New York, the World's Most Linguistically Diverse Metropolis
June 06, 2025
June 06, 2025
NEW YORK, June 6 -- Columbia University issued the following news:
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New York, the World's Most Linguistically Diverse Metropolis
In Language City, Ross Perlin, a linguist, takes readers on a tour of the city's communities with endangered tongues.
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Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century, and--because many have never been recorded--when they're gone, it will be forever. Ross Pe . . .
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New York, the World's Most Linguistically Diverse Metropolis
In Language City, Ross Perlin, a linguist, takes readers on a tour of the city's communities with endangered tongues.
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Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century, and--because many have never been recorded--when they're gone, it will be forever. Ross Pe . . .