ANTH 1003 Lecture : The Linguists Video Notes
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Linguist scientist who studies language not just to learn the languages, but to figure out the possible ways the human mind can make sense of the world around it. There are more than 7,000 languages in the world. Small languages are disappearing at a rate of 1 every 2 weeks, or so. Siberia: russian has killed native siberian languages, dr. david harrison words, sounds, excellent language learner, dr. gregory d. s. Anderson director great with verbs: they have worked in siberia for 6 years, they are looking for a new language to document, together, they speak 25 languages including russian. First goal: tomsk laboratory of siberian languages. Then, they went to tegel-debt to find town hall/ the town administrator. The mayor of tegel-debt did not like the chulym people. Their driver, vasya, was a 52-year-old chulym guy who spoke the language fluently.
