Talkers at Fmovies. The three speakers represent two of the dialects, with the most common one - the middle dialect spoken in Riga and central parts of Latvia - not featured in the film. In intimate surroundings, a farmer, a schoolteacher, and a herder of ostriches talk about perceived differences between Latvian speakers, and about language policy and their lives.
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The celebration of a city is held every year and nostalgia is the main guest. Around the city there is nothing but ruins and in the distance, four...
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Three Alaska Native women work to save their endangered language, Kodiak Alutiiq, and ensure the future of their culture while confronting their...
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It is estimated that 40% of the world’s population lack the opportunity to be educated in their own language. In Colours of the Alphabet we get...
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There are over 6,000 languages in the world. We lose one every two weeks. Hundreds will be lost within the next generation. By the end of this...
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For 50 years, controversial ethnographer John Peabody Harrington crisscrossed the United States, frantically searching and documenting dying Native...
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Michel Thomas is one of the most brilliant language teachers in the world. His usual clients are movie stars and business leaders. This programme...
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CREE CODE TALKER reveals the role of Canadian Cree code talker Charles 'Checker' Tomkins during the Second World War. Digging deep into the US...
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This short documentary examines an innovative educational program developed by John and Gerti Murdoch to teach Cree children their language via Cree...
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At what point in our evolution did we start talking? To paint, play music and travel? When did we build our first imaginary worlds? When was the need...
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Whether in rock, pop, rap or slam: the people of Bern have dominated the dialect music scene in German-speaking Switzerland for many years. Why does...
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The world's largest island has been part of Denmark since 1721, but a significant majority of the 56.000 inhabitants now want independence. They feel...
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Documentary by Jean-Pierre Gorin about twin girls who spontaneously developed their own unique language as children.