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Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York | Ross Perlin
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From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a captivating portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible history of the most linguistically (…more)
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squirrelbrain
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I had to buy this when I saw it a few months ago - a book about languages, and also about NYC?! ❤️

This is a fascinating account of 6 speakers of little-known, almost extinct, languages who all live and work in NYC, all well as a history of immigration to that city and diversity within it. It looks at grammar and language structure, alongside cultural histories.

Of course, I had to pair the book with my Strand bookmark!

LeahBergen That sounds super interesting! 3w
LeeRHarry I picked this up the other day after hearing about it from you Helen - good to hear that you enjoyed it! - I love books about languages too. 3w
squirrelbrain @leahbergen @LeeRHarry - it was fascinating! 3w
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charl08
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From the judges' comments: “New York City is home to more than 700 languages — ‘the most linguistically diverse city in the history of the world‘ – and by examining them Perlin opens out new ways of thinking about the exuberant variety of these aspects of the urban soundscape, which we might otherwise take for granted or ignore."

https://www.thebritishacademy.ac.uk/news/language-city-wins-the-british-academy-...

Ruthiella Sounds fascinating! 2mo
squirrelbrain I picked this up on our recent York bookshop crawl, (do you recall @micheleinphilly, in Waterstones?) but put it back down, of course. 🤨 I may just order it anyway. 2mo
charl08 @Ruthiella agreed. @squirrelbrain I was going to buy it and then realised I have two previous winners still in the TBR pile... 2mo
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