Comments on: Another brick off the tower of Babel

Another brick off the tower of Babel

Dim Siawns — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 07:48:35 -0800

As part of National Geographic's Enduring Voices project, Gregory Anderson, K. David Harrison and Ganesh Murmu travelled to Arunachal Pradesh to document the Aka and Miji languages - and in the process, they found a previously undocumented language, Koro (not to be confused with Koro, Koro or Koro). The NG site has a video and gallery; you might also be interested in this interview given by Harrison to NPR, which includes a small audio selection of Koro words and phrases.

By: shii

shii — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 08:08:15 -0800

I saw this in the paper today, but I never saw this story about 30 new languages being found in China last year. As the researcher who pointed us to his article from the NPR comments says, it's all about who you know...

By: fourcheesemac

fourcheesemac — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:01:43 -0800

As a linguist, one sometimes wonders if endangered languages are better of remaining undiscovered. But great photos, fascinating story, and thanks for the post.

By: jtron

jtron — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:14:05 -0800

Not Koro, either.

By: languagehat

languagehat — Thu, 07 Oct 2010 10:19:41 -0800

What fourcheesemac said. Nice post!

By: snottydick

snottydick — Fri, 08 Oct 2010 09:48:24 -0800

Oh. I thought this was a post about Koro.