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        "description": "<p>October 5, 2010\u2014A language  previously unknown to linguists, and spoken by about 800 people has been  documented in the mountains of northeast India. Researchers with  National Geographic's Enduring Voices project recorded the Koro language  for the first time.</p>", 
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        "title": "Hidden Language Recorded", 
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        "credit": " 2010 National Geographic", 
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        "transcript": "<p class=\"MsoNormal\">Before this trip to a remote part of northeast India, there were 6,909 living languages known to scientists.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">Now there is one more.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">National  Geographic\u2019s Enduring Voices project brought linguists Gregory Anderson  and David Harrison to a region of India that requires a special permit  just to enter.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">To reach one village where this language is spoken, the expedition team had to cross a mountain river by bamboo raft.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">It would be the first known time the language would be recorded.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">Arunachal  Pradesh is the home of an endangered language known as Koro. It\u2019s part  of the Tibeto-Burman language family, a group of some 400 languages.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">But until now, Koro was unknown to world linguists.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">Only about 800 people are believed to speak it, with few under age 20.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">Harrison,  Anderson and Indian linguist Ganesh Murmu sat in the homes of the  speakers, making recordings as people shared vocabularies and stories in  Koro.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">The researchers were in the region to  study two poorly known languages, but in speaking to the locals,  detected the third surprise language.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">The  scientists believe Koro may have sprung from slaves in the region, but  they say more research is needed to determine precise origins.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">Linguists  consider half of the world\u2019s nearly seven thousand languages  endangered, threatened by cultural changes, ethnic shame, and even  government repression.</p><p class=\"MsoNormal\">But at least with the Enduring Voices project, languages like Koro can be recorded and documented for the ages.</p>", 
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