Watch talkers YMovies. The three speakers represent two of the dialects, with the most common one - the middle dialect spoken in Riga and central parts of Latvia - not featured in the film. In intimate surroundings, a farmer, a schoolteacher, and a herder of ostriches talk about perceived differences between Latvian speakers, and about language policy and their lives.
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Ahmemulić prepares tongue in her mother’s way – skinned, seasoned, boiled, sliced. She can then in turn serve her son her...
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Taqralik Partridge asks what if every language that had been lost to English — every word, every syllable — grew up out of the ground in...
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The Cherokee language is deeply tied to Cherokee identity; yet generations of assimilation efforts by the U.S. government and anti-Indigenous stigmas...
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At what point in our evolution did we start talking? To paint, play music and travel? When did we build our first imaginary worlds? When was the need...
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A Wounaan teenager and a leader of their community venture into the Darién in search of a sacred bird. Along the way, they will face the...
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Three college students start a social experiment to prove that reality changes according to the words we use to describe it. Through research,...
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Vārdotājas (Wordsmiths) traces the recent rise of women's stand-up comedy in Latvia, but it is by no means just for laughs. Feelings of...
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"If a person doesn't go to church anymore, then the church should go to them," says Rinalds, a calm, smiling, young man with a good sense of humor....
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Whether in rock, pop, rap or slam: the people of Bern have dominated the dialect music scene in German-speaking Switzerland for many years. Why does...
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CREE CODE TALKER reveals the role of Canadian Cree code talker Charles 'Checker' Tomkins during the Second World War. Digging deep into the US...
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WORDS FROM HOME is a poetic documentary that explores the kinds of affection and identity in the portuguese language spoken in Brazil. Through...
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“Let’s think of nature as a big room. Nature is a room you know you’ll have to leave some day, most likely not by choice”....