The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York

Ross Perlin, the co-director of the Endangered Language Alliance, visits with The Shmooze to talk about his new book, Language City: The Fight to Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues in New York. The book provides a portrait of contemporary New York City through six speakers of little-known and overlooked languages, diving into the incredible history of the most linguistically diverse place ever to have existed on the planet.