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NPR Story
1:00 pm
Fri February 17, 2012
Digital Tools Help Document Vanishing Languages
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Linguist David Harrison has travelled to remote corners of the world seeking the last speakers of endangered languages. Now, he's using digital tools to to record and revitalize these dying languages. At the AAAS meeting this week, Harrison unveiled 'talking dictionaries' for eight languages.