|  SWARTHMORE, Pa., Jan. 13, 2007 - The Linguists, a documentary featuring Assistant Professor of Linguistics K. David Harrison (left), will have its world premiere at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival later this month. The film, the subject of a recent front page story in the Philadelphia Inquirer, follows Harrison and Gregory Anderson as they document disappearing languages around the world and is the first documentary supported by the National Science Foundation to screen at Sundance. View the trailer.
Harrison has traveled extensively to interview the last speakers of critically endangered languages as part of the National Geographic Society's Enduring Voices Project. He says more than half of the world's 7,000 languages are expected to become extinct by the end of the century. more
News of the language hotspots that Harrison and his colleagues identified made headlines around the world, including in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, the Guardian UK, and The Australian. Harrison has also discussed his work on "Good Morning America" and "The Colbert Report."
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