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    "title":"Hidden Language Recorded",

    "transcript":"\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EBefore this trip to a remote part of northeast India, there were 6,909 living languages known to scientists.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003ENow there is one more.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003ENational  Geographic’s Enduring Voices project brought linguists Gregory Anderson  and David Harrison to a region of India that requires a special permit  just to enter.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003ETo reach one village where this language is spoken, the expedition team had to cross a mountain river by bamboo raft.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EIt would be the first known time the language would be recorded.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EArunachal  Pradesh is the home of an endangered language known as Koro. It’s part  of the Tibeto\u002DBurman language family, a group of some 400 languages.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EBut until now, Koro was unknown to world linguists.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EOnly about 800 people are believed to speak it, with few under age 20.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EHarrison,  Anderson and Indian linguist Ganesh Murmu sat in the homes of the  speakers, making recordings as people shared vocabularies and stories in  Koro.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EThe researchers were in the region to  study two poorly known languages, but in speaking to the locals,  detected the third surprise language.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EThe  scientists believe Koro may have sprung from slaves in the region, but  they say more research is needed to determine precise origins.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003ELinguists  consider half of the world’s nearly seven thousand languages  endangered, threatened by cultural changes, ethnic shame, and even  government repression.\u003C/p\u003E\u003Cp class\u003D\u0022MsoNormal\u0022\u003EBut at least with the Enduring Voices project, languages like Koro can be recorded and documented for the ages.\u003C/p\u003E",

    "description":"\u003Cp\u003EOctober 5, 2010—A language  previously unknown to linguists, and spoken by about 800 people has been  documented in the mountains of northeast India. Researchers with  National Geographic\u0027s Enduring Voices project recorded the Koro language  for the first time.\u003C/p\u003E",
    
    "credit":" 2010 National Geographic",
    

    
    
    
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