Expeditions
Each year the Enduring Voices Project sends teams to language hotspots around the globe to interview speakers and document vanishing cultures and languages. Read about some of their latest expeditions.
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The following Web sites showcase efforts to revitalize indigenous languages:
Northwest Pacific Plateau
Oklahoma and the Southwest
Mesoamerica
Northern South America
Central South America
Southern South America
Southern Africa
Western Africa
Australia
Taiwan and the Philippines
Eastern Siberia and Alaska
Eastern India and Malaysia
Worldwide Projects
The Enduring Voices Project represents a partnership between National Geographic Mission Programs and the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages.
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Revitalization
The Enduring Voices Project uses modern technology to empower indigenous communities to preserve their ancient traditions.
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Enduring Voices Project teams go to some of the world's most remote and beautiful places to study and preserve endangered languages. See photos and videos of their work.
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Language Hotspots
Do you know which parts of the world have the most languages in danger of extinction? Find out in this interactive map.
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The Last Speakers
Part travelogue and part scientist’s notebook, The Last Speakers is the poignant chronicle of K. David Harrison’s expeditions around the world to meet with last speakers of vanishing languages.
The Linguists
Ironbound Films' Sundance hit follows David and Gregory racing to document languages on the verge of extinction.
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