Ross Perlin, professor at Columbia in the Linguistics program and co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, discusses how large cities are often home to endangered languages from around the world. He talks about the challenges of preserving and revitalizing languages with few speakers, and gives the examples of Seke, a language of Nepal, and Lunaape (also called Lenape or Delaware), a Native American language of the Algonquian family.

Learn more about the Endangered Language Alliance here: https://www.elalliance.org/ The ELA’s “Languages of New York City” map: Print version: https://www.elalliance.org/our-work/maps/nyc-map Digital version: https://languagemap.nyc/