In “Our Language in Your Hands,” a series of three programs being aired on BBC radio, Yale anthropologist and linguist Mark Turin conducts a tour of endangered languages in three very different ...

As more and more people embrace the global languages of English, Mandarin Chinese, Spanish, and Arabic, other languages are rapidly disappearing. In fact, half of the estimated 6,000–7,000 languages ...

Linguist Mark Turin tracks down some of the world's endangered languages. In today’s programme he takes listeners on a journey through the cultural and linguistic map of the hidden kingdom of Bhutan.

Anthropologist Mark Turin discusses his work helping speakers of Thangmi, a Tibeto-Burman language spoken in eastern Nepal University of Cambridge You'll never again hear anyone speaking Laghu, and ...

4 Extra Debut. Mark Turin investigates Nepal with its 100 or so languages, many spoken for generations and now facing extinction. From December 2012. Show more Landlocked and mountainous Nepal is home ...

Mark Turin meets the linguists tracking and preserving the languages of the most linguistically diverse city ever - New York. From December 2012. Show more New York has long been a city of immigrants, ...