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Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
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85/100Critics
77/100Scholars
Author:
Ross Perlin
Publisher:
Atlantic Monthly Press
Date:
February 20, 2024
A portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the history of the most linguistically diverse place ever to have existed on the planet.
What The Reviewers Say
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Panoramic, enthralling.
[Perlin] opens up the world of endangered languages to monolingual mainstream Americans by bringing compelling and driven native speakers of those languages to the table, as well as taking care to provide historical and cultural detail. However, the volume of information in the book, including geographic specifics of both New York and the world, can occasionally feel dense despite an approachable tone and clear explanations of concepts..
