NYC is the world's capital of endangered languages.
Alex Carp, The Endangered Languages of New York, NYTimes, Feb. 22, 2024.
Most people think of endangered languages as far-flung or exotic, the opposite of cosmopolitan. "You go to some distant mountain or island, and you collect stories," the linguist Ross Perlin says, describing a typical view of how such languages are studied. But of the 700 or so speakers of Seke, most of whom can be found in a cluster of villages in Nepal, more than 150 have lived in or around two apartment buildings in Brooklyn. Bishnupriya Manipuri, a minority language of Bangladesh and India, has ...