Language Matters with Bob Holman
2015
10.0 (1)
1 hr 50 min
English
What does it take to save a language?
There are over 6,000 languages in the world. We lose one every two weeks. Hundreds will be lost within the next generation. By the end of this century, half of the world's languages will have vanished. Language Matters with Bob Holman is a two hour documentary that asks: What do we lose when a language dies? What does it take to save a language?
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- Status
- Released
- Production
- PBS
Keywords
- crisis
- speech
- foreign language
- language
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Top Cast
Bob Holman as Self - Narrator
Arlene W. Eaton as Self
Pele Harmon as Self
Kauanoe Kamana as Self
Larry Kimura as Self
Kepa Maly as Self
William Stanley Merwin as Self
Lolena Nicholas as Self
Top Crew
David Grubin · Director, Writer
James Callanan · Cinematographer
Robert Richman · Cinematographer
Deborah Peretz · Editor
Leanne K. Ferrer · Executive Producer
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