Language City
The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York
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Half of all 7,000-plus human languages may disappear over the next century, and when they're gone, it will be forever. Ross Perlin, a linguist and codirector of the Manhattan-based non-profit Endangered Language Alliance, is racing against time to map little-known languages across the most linguistically diverse city in history: contemporary New York. Perlin recounts the unique history of immigration that shaped the city, and follows six remarkable yet ordinary speakers of endangered languages deep into their communities to learn how they are maintaining and reviving their languages.
Seke is spoken by 700 people from five ancestral villages in Nepal, a hundred of whom have lived in a single Brooklyn apartment building. N'ko is a radical new West African writing system now going global in Harlem and the Bronx. After centuries of colonization and displacement, Lenape, the city's original Indigenous language and the source of the name Manhattan ("the place where we get bows"), has just one fluent native speaker, bolstered by a small band of revivalists.
A century after the anti-immigration Johnson-Reed Act closed America's doors for decades and on the 400th anniversary of New York's colonial founding, Perlin raises the alarm about growing political threats and the onslaught of "killer languages" like English and Spanish.
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Great Literary Work
- De Dr Ag en 02-25-24
De: Venita Blackburn
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Stolen Pride
- Loss, Shame, and the Rise of the Right
- De: Arlie Russell Hochschild
- Narrado por: Ellen Archer
- Duración: 9 h y 31 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 51
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Historia4.5 out of 5 stars 51
For all the attempts to understand the state of American politics and the blue/red divide, we've ignored what economic and cultural loss can do to pride. What happens, Arlie Russell Hochschild asks, when a proud people in a hard-hit region suffer the deep loss of pride and are confronted with a powerful political appeal that makes it feel "stolen"? Hochschild's research drew her to Pikeville, Kentucky, in the heart of Appalachia, within the whitest and second-poorest congressional district in the nation.
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4 out of 5 stars
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interesting conversations
- De Mark en 03-15-25
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Health and Safety
- A Breakdown
- De: Emily Witt
- Narrado por: Emily Witt
- Duración: 9 h
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 29
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 28
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 28
In the summer of 2016, a divisive presidential election was underway, and a new breed of right-wing rage was on the rise. Emily Witt, who would soon publish her first book on sex in the digital age, had recently quit antidepressants for a more expansive world of psychedelic experimentation. From her apartment in Brooklyn, she began to catch glimpses of the clandestine nightlife scene thrumming around her.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Bored voice
- De Amazon Customer en 12-20-24
De: Emily Witt
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Moon Tiger
- De: Penelope Lively
- Narrado por: Ruth Urquhart
- Duración: 7 h y 51 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 96
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Narración:4 out of 5 stars 85
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Elderly, uncompromising Claudia Hampton lies in a London hospital bed with memories of life fluttering through her fading consciousness. An author of popular history, Claudia proclaims she's carrying out her last project: a history of the world. This history turns out to be a mosaic of her life, her own story tangled with those of her brother, her lover and father of her daughter, and the center of her life, Tom, her one great love found and lost in war-torn Egypt.
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5 out of 5 stars
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stunning beauty
- De philip carr harris en 03-31-19
De: Penelope Lively
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Wild Houses
- De: Colin Barrett
- Narrado por: Damian Gildea
- Duración: 6 h y 50 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 67
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 56
The riotous, raucous, and deeply resonant debut novel from “one of the best story writers in the English language today” (Financial Times), Wild Houses follows two outsiders caught in the crosshairs of a small-town revenge kidnapping gone awry.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Insider look at a small crime
- De Probably did en 03-24-24
De: Colin Barrett
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Fi
- A Memoir
- De: Alexandra Fuller
- Narrado por: Alexandra Fuller
- Duración: 6 h y 24 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 56
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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It’s the middle of the summer before her fiftieth birthday and Alexandra is just barely hanging on. Grieving her father and pining for her home country of Zimbabwe, chafing and straining against the stresses and strictures of midlife as a mother and ex-wife, and piecing her way through a disastrous relationship with a younger woman that lurches and buckles, but never quite breaks. And then—suddenly and incomprehensibly—her son Fi, at 21 years old, dies in his sleep. What happens next is what Alexandra details in this book.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Lifting the fog
- De Nina J. en 04-20-24
De: Alexandra Fuller
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The Mysterious Case of the Alperton Angels
- A Novel
- De: Janice Hallett
- Narrado por: Annie Aldington, Nneka Okoye, Gareth Armstrong, y otros
- Duración: 10 h y 31 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 85
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 78
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Historia4 out of 5 stars 78
Everyone knows the story of the Alperton Angels: the cult who brainwashed a teenage girl into believing her baby was the anti-Christ. When the girl came to her senses and called the police, the Angels committed suicide and mother and baby disappeared.
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1 out of 5 stars
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Actor chewing noises disgusting. Did not finish.
- De Schwarzian en 03-12-24
De: Janice Hallett
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Madness
- Race and Insanity in a Jim Crow Asylum
- De: Antonia Hylton
- Narrado por: Antonia Hylton
- Duración: 11 h y 2 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 169
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On a cold day in March of 1911, officials marched twelve Black men into the heart of a forest in Maryland. Under the supervision of a doctor, the men were forced to clear the land, pour cement, lay bricks, and harvest tobacco. When construction finished, they became the first twelve patients of the state’s Hospital for the Negro Insane. For centuries, Black patients have been absent from our history books. Madness transports listeners behind the brick walls of a Jim Crow asylum. In Madness, journalist Antonia Hylton tells the 93-year-old history of Crownsville Hospital.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Glad to have added this to my cerebral quarters
- De Alednam A Uonopk en 04-25-24
De: Antonia Hylton
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Black River
- De: Nilanjana Roy
- Narrado por: Sharmila Devar
- Duración: 11 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 9
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Teetapur, an unassuming village just a few hours outside of bustling Delhi, is famous for nothing—until one of its children, eight-year-old Munia, is found dead, hanging from the branch of a Jamun tree. In the largely Hindu village, suspicion quickly falls on an itinerant Muslim man, Mansoor. Suspicion ignites like wildfire, fueled by religious tensions that simmer beneath the surface.
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3 out of 5 stars
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Good but not a mystery
- De ascot en 10-11-24
De: Nilanjana Roy
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Cue the Sun!
- The Invention of Reality TV
- De: Emily Nussbaum
- Narrado por: Gabra Zackman
- Duración: 15 h y 11 m
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General4.5 out of 5 stars 135
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 127
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Who invented reality television, the world’s most dangerous pop-culture genre? And why can’t we look away? In this revelatory, deeply reported account of the rise of “dirty documentary”—from its contentious roots in radio to the ascent of Donald Trump—Emily Nussbaum unearths the origin story of the genre that ate the world, as told through the lively voices of the people who built it. At once gimlet-eyed and empathetic, Cue the Sun! explores the morally charged, funny, and sometimes tragic consequences of the hunt for something real inside something fake.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Weak, semi-unconnected stories
- De KDN en 07-20-24
De: Emily Nussbaum
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Piglet
- A Novel
- De: Lottie Hazell
- Narrado por: Rebekah Hinds
- Duración: 7 h y 35 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 188
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Narración:4.5 out of 5 stars 177
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Outside of a childhood nickname she can’t shake, Piglet’s rather pleased with how her life’s turned out. An up-and-coming cookbook editor at a London publishing house, she’s got lovely, loyal friends and a handsome fiancé, Kit, whose rarefied family she actually, most of the time, likes, despite their upper-class eccentricities. One of the many, many things Kit loves about Piglet is the delicious, unfathomably elaborate meals she’s always cooking.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Revelation through Food
- De M.A. en 10-07-24
De: Lottie Hazell
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I Just Keep Talking
- A Life in Essays
- De: Nell Irvin Painter
- Narrado por: Nell Irvin Painter
- Duración: 17 h y 1 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 3
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From the New York Times bestselling author of The History of White People and Old in Art School, a finalist for the NBCC Award, comes a comprehensive new collection of essays spanning art, politics, and the legacy of racism that shapes American history as we know it. These essays resist easy answers in favor of complexity, the inescapable sense of our country’s potential thwarted by its failures. This collection will surely solidify Painter’s place among the finest critics and writers of the last half century.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Author reader
- De K D S en 07-11-24
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Undivided
- The Quest for Racial Solidarity in an American Church
- De: Hahrie Han
- Narrado por: Vivienne Leheny
- Duración: 8 h y 11 m
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General5 out of 5 stars 13
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The inspiring story of evangelicals in Cincinnati struggling to bridge racial divides in their own church, their community, and across the nation.
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellent and accurate storytelling
- De Mike Baticala en 02-08-25
De: Hahrie Han
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A Wilder Shore
- The Romantic Odyssey of Fanny and Robert Louis Stevenson
- De: Camille Peri
- Narrado por: Jeanette Illidge
- Duración: 16 h y 14 m
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General4 out of 5 stars 23
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Narración:3.5 out of 5 stars 19
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He was an ambitious but drifting writer from a prominent Scottish family. She was a tough Nevada silver miner’s wife, with children, when they met. Who could have predicted that Fanny Van de Grift and Robert Louis Stevenson would go on to create one of history’s great literary marriages? From their first encounter in France in 1876, Fanny and Louis’s partnership transcended societal expectations to become a literary union that was progressive, eccentric, and tempestuous, but always animated by a profound mutual respect
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3 out of 5 stars
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Fairly interesting
- De Luke en 10-25-24
De: Camille Peri
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A Walk in the Park
- De: Kevin Fedarko
- Narrado por: Kevin Fedarko
- Duración: 14 h y 40 m
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A few years after quitting his job to follow an ill-advised dream of becoming a guide on the Colorado River, Kevin Fedarko was approached by his friend, the National Geographic photographer Pete McBride, with a vision as bold as it was harebrained. Together, they would embark on an end-to-end traverse of the Grand Canyon, a journey that, McBride promised, would be “a walk in the park.” Against his better judgment, Fedarko agreed to the scheme. The ensuing ordeal, which lasted more than a year, revealed a place that was richer, and far more complex, than anything the two men had imagined.
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2 out of 5 stars
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I so wanted to love this book but I just couldn’t.
- De Barbara W. en 05-31-24
De: Kevin Fedarko
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Shred Sisters
- A Novel
- De: Betsy Lerner
- Narrado por: Rebecca Lowman
- Duración: 7 h y 31 m
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It is said that when one person in a family is unstable, the whole family is destabilized. Meet the Shreds. Olivia is the sister in the spotlight until her stunning confidence becomes erratic and unpredictable, a hurricane leaving people wrecked in her wake. Younger sister Amy, cautious and studious to the core, believes in facts, proof, and the empirical world. None of that explains what’s happening to Ollie, whose physical beauty and charisma mask the mental illness that will shatter Amy’s carefully constructed life.
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2 out of 5 stars
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Fairly common storyline
- De Placeholder en 10-22-24
De: Betsy Lerner
Lo que los oyentes dicen sobre Language City
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- Anna
- 05-21-24
fantastic narration + bonus audio clips
This is an incredible piece of research and storytelling. The author does a fantastic job with the narration and also includes original audioclips of many of the endangered languages he describes.
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- DeAndre & Shari
- 06-02-24
the narration and rich content
Absolutely fantastic! A must-read for anyone (linguist, student, community member, etc.) interested in language documentation and conservation.
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- annei
- 06-02-24
Fascinating Read
Wonderful insights into the importance of language, socially and culturally. Fascinating explanation of how languages play a critical role in creating the rich fabric of New York.
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- Tree Jones
- 03-17-25
originality
It was just not my cup of tea, but the research that was done is great.
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