Language A to Z. Episode 23, X for !Xóõ, Y for Yiddish [digital video].

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Title:

Added Author:

McWhorter, John, actor.

Series:

Great courses (Streaming video)

Publication Date:

2020

2023

Publication Information:

The Great Courses, 2020.

[San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2023.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (streaming video file) (15 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound

Abstract:

Take a quick trip to southern Africa on an investigation of one of a whole group of click languages called the Khoi-San family that could very well be one of Earth's first languages. Then, follow the odd story of the "death" of a language that actually isn't dying at all: Yiddish.

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Performers:

John McWhorter

Technical Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Subject Term:

African studies.

Anthropology.

Linguistics.