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Daniel Kaufman

Rose and Alfrits Monintja outside of their home in the New York City borough of Queens. The Monintjas are originally from the village of Sonder in North Sulawesi, Indonesia, and are among an estimated 100,000 people who speak the disappearing language Ton

When New Yorker Rose Monintja speaks her native tongue, the memories flood back

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If you want to revive vanishing languages, don’t just document them. Get people to speak them on stage– and then videotape it.

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He sings to save Garifuna, the language of his ancestors and community

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