Linguists in Arunachal Pradesh set out to record an Aka dialect and found Koro instead, a distinct language with about 1,000 speakers and no written record.
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Belarus's 2009 census found those calling Belarusian their native language fell from almost 74 percent to 53 percent, with only 23 percent speaking it at home.
Stephen Pax Leonard will live a year with the Inughuit to record Inuktun, an undocumented language with about 1,000 speakers and a thinning sheet of ice.