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Et si Babel n'était qu'un mythe? = What if Babel was just a myth? / un film écrit et réalisé par Sandrine Loncke.
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- French
- Undetermined
- Subjects (All):
- Multilingualism--Chad.
- Multilingualism.
- Indigenous peoples--Chad--Languages.
- Indigenous peoples.
- Sociolinguistics.
- Language and languages.
- Chad.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Nonfiction films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 streaming video file (56 min.) : digital, sound, color
- polychrome
- Other Title:
- What if Babel was just a myth?
- Place of Publication:
- [Brooklyn, New York] : [Distributed by] Icarus Films, [2021]
- Language Note:
- In French, Láàl and English with English subtitles; closed captioning available.
- System Details:
- System requirements: Firefox 4 and up; Safari 5.0 and up; Chrome version 21 and up; Internet Explorer 8 and up; Flash or HTML5 player.
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- video file
- Summary:
- 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.
- Credits:
- Camera, Charlotte Krebs ; music, Sory Kandia Kouyaté, Oumou Sangaré, Badjé Makan Tounkara.
- Notes:
- Title from title frames.
- Originally produced in 2019.
- Description based on online resource; title from title frames (Docuseek2, viewed May 18, 2021).
- Publisher Number:
- if-myth Docuseek2
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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