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Summary
The Linguists is a hilarious and poignant chronicle of two scientists-David Harrison and Gregory Anderson-racing to document languages on the verge of extinction.
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Audiences 76GoodWatch 74
Audience score79%
IMDb7.2
Running time
1 h 4 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 documentaries, −32 min on the typical 96
typical 9664Half of all documentaries run 89–107 min.
Reach
Streams in 1 country
Released
2008
January 17, 2008
18 years ago
Genre
DocumentaryLanguage
English
Original language
Directing · 3
- Seth Kramer Director
- Jeremy Newberger Director
- Daniel A. Miller Director
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