The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
Ross Perlin
overview
From the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, a portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible history of the most linguistically diverse place ever to have existed on the planet.
contents
“Preface: The Limits of My Language
I. Thousands of Natural Experiments
A Room on Eighteenth Street
A Home in Queens
A Snapshot of Babel
A Brief Guide to Radical Linguistics
II. Past
Minority Port
Survivor City
Indigenous Metropolis
Global Microcosm
III. Present
Rasmina - सेके, སེ་སྐད་ (Seke)
Husniya - Xˇik (Wakhi)
Boris - ייׅדיש (Yiddish)
Ibrahima - )ok‘N( ߒߞߏ
Irwin - Nahuatl
Karen - Lunaape (Lenape)
IV. Future
Acknowledgments
A Note on Sources”