“In a handful of tiny log-cabin villages in central Siberia, a day’s drive from Tomsk and more than 2,175 miles east of Moscow, the Swarthmore College professor found the Ös – a cluster of people last visited by researchers three decades earlier, who spoke a language that no academic linguist had ever recorded…. A PBS documentary crew tagged along for a show that is in production.”
– A Philadelphia Enquirer review of The Linguists.
I talk to one of the film maker’s sister. Riveting Radio!