List for March Around the World 2024, organized by Lise: boxd.it/sOe32
Languages spoken in most of these films are represented in fewer than 300 films on letterboxd. In the notes, the number's given after the language's name. Some languages/dialects aren't on the letterboxd/TMDB list and info about their rarity in film came from elsewhere.
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8 other films of linguistic interest (e.g., a documentary on a secret script used by women, narrative features on societies forbidding speech).
After MATW 2024 ended, I put other films on my radar into boxd.it/tp6uy$4Y5CG6tAhcx4zvpy and have been watching them. I also came across Wayne Little's excellent list, called My Favourite Movie of Every Language: boxd.it/1BMlU
Notes:
imgur.com/OkmVscq shows the 100 most spoken languages in…
List for March Around the World 2024, organized by Lise: boxd.it/sOe32
Languages spoken in most of these films are represented in fewer than 300 films on letterboxd. In the notes, the number's given after the language's name. Some languages/dialects aren't on the letterboxd/TMDB list and info about their rarity in film came from elsewhere.
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8 other films of linguistic interest (e.g., a documentary on a secret script used by women, narrative features on societies forbidding speech).
After MATW 2024 ended, I put other films on my radar into boxd.it/tp6uy$4Y5CG6tAhcx4zvpy and have been watching them. I also came across Wayne Little's excellent list, called My Favourite Movie of Every Language: boxd.it/1BMlU
Notes:
imgur.com/OkmVscq shows the 100 most spoken languages in the world. Several of them are rarely heard in film, including Burmese, Igbo, Kazakh, Somali, and Sunda, each represented in this list.
unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000187026 identifies vulnerable and endangered languages. The ones represented in this list are: Basque, Desano, Faroese, Guarani, Inuktitut, Māori, Romansh, and Tamasheq/Tamazight. Kusaal and Tboli are mentioned elsewhere as being vulnerable/endangered.
tinyurl.com/2cnbx4ky shows relations among many languages. For an African language map, there's tinyurl.com/y9n4z6dp The main families of African languages represented here are shown in tinyurl.com/d69t9e9h and tinyurl.com/3x8va2ue For Indo-European language relations, tinyurl.com/37cw63cn is a good source.
