New York City is home to a lot of languages! Sometimes a sizeable language community can live on just a couple of floors of an apartment building. Dr Ross Perlin is working to find and promote minority languages in NYC. He's the co-founder of the Endangered Language Alliance, and author of Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York. Ross joins us for this episode. Intro: 0:36 News: 8:13 Related or Not: 32:52 Interview with Ross Perlin: 43:12 Words of the Week: 1:24:13 The Reads: 1:39:54 Show notes: http://becauselanguage.com/96-language-city/ Support the show: http://patreon.com/join/becauselangpod/

<description>&lt;p&gt;New York City is home to a lot of languages! Sometimes a sizeable language community can live on just a couple of floors of an apartment building. Dr &lt;strong&gt;Ross Perlin&lt;/strong&gt; is working to find and promote minority languages in NYC. He's the co-founder of the Endangered Language Alliance, and author of Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York. Ross joins us for this episode.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Intro: 0:36&lt;br /&gt; News: 8:13&lt;br /&gt; Related or Not: 32:52&lt;br /&gt; Interview with Ross Perlin: 43:12&lt;br /&gt; Words of the Week: 1:24:13&lt;br /&gt; The Reads: 1:39:54&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Show notes: http://becauselanguage.com/96-language-city/&lt;br /&gt; Support the show: http://patreon.com/join/becauselangpod/&lt;/p&gt;</description>

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96: Language City (with Ross Perlin)

96: Language City (with Ross Perlin)

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