What does it take to save a language?

Language Matters with Bob Holman

2015·1h 50m10.0HistoryDocumentary

There are over 6,000 languages in the world. We lose one every two weeks. Hundreds will be lost within the next generation. By the end of this century, half of the world's languages will have vanished. Language Matters with Bob Holman is a two hour documentary that asks: What do we lose when a language dies? What does it take to save a language?

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Bob Holman

Self - Narrator / Host

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Arlene W. Eaton

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Pele Harmon

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Kauanoe Kamana

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Larry Kimura

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Kepa Maly

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William Stanley Merwin

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Lolena Nicholas

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Puakea Nogelmeier

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Keali'i Reichel

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Kaui Sai-Dudoit

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Nick Evans

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Gwyneth Lewis

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