As native tongues rapidly become extinct, linguists discover an exotic specimen. In the foothills of the Himalayas, two field linguists have uncovered a find as rare as any endangered species—a language completely new to science. The language is named Koro. "Their language is quite distinct on every level—the sound, the words, the sentence structure," said Gregory Anderson, director of the nonprofit Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, who directs the project's research. Details of the language will be documented in an upcoming issue of the journal Indian Linguistics.
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