Et si Babel n'était qu'un mythe? = What if Babel was just a myth? / un film écrit et réalisé par Sandrine Loncke.

[Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2019]

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Every two weeks, a human language disappears. Within a century, 50 to 90 percent of all languages will be gone. Does it matter? Linguist Florian Lionnet of Princeton University emphatically believes it does. For years, he's been documenting Láàl, a language spoken by only 700 people living in two villages on the banks of the Moyen-Chari River, in Southern Chad. Language encodes culture and worldviews, and each time a language disappears, we lose an irreplaceable part of humanity. This film follows Lionnet as he accompanies villagers during their daily activities--fishing, carving a dugout canoe, dancing, and telling stories. He listens in on conversations, asks questions about vocabulary and grammar, and diligently records everything.Láàl may be the villagers' mother tongue, but most--including children--are fluent in at least five languages.

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French; Undetermined; English

April 14, 2022

Camera, Charlotte Krebs ; music, Sory Kandia Kouyaté, Oumou Sangaré, Badjé Makan Tounkara.

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