Watch talkers Gomovies. 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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In this short documentary, a Musqueam elder rediscovers his Native language and traditions in the city of Vancouver, in the vicinity of which the...
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How do German couples communicate in private? What are they arguing about? Is the way to a man’s heart really through his stomach? This...
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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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"If a person doesn't go to church anymore, then the church should go to them," says Rinalds, a calm, smiling, young man with a good sense of humor....
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Vārdotājas (Wordsmiths) traces the recent rise of women's stand-up comedy in Latvia, but it is by no means just for laughs. Feelings of...
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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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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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For 50 years, controversial ethnographer John Peabody Harrington crisscrossed the United States, frantically searching and documenting dying Native...
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Three college students start a social experiment to prove that reality changes according to the words we use to describe it. Through research,...
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The movie explores the origin of the Ukrainian language and persecution of those who defended its authenticity. Using examples of other countries,...
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Victor Klemperer (1881-1960), a professor of literature in Dresden, was Jewish; through the efforts of his wife, he survived the war. From 1933 when...
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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...