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VIDEO – Ethnographic Documentary Film “What if Babel was just a myth?” (56′, 2019)

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Following a young researcher documenting a language isolate in southern Chad, the film goes out to meet villagers and explore their relation to languages.
With their testimonies, one discovers a deeply multilingual humanity, made up of a myriad societies, each endlessly using language to encode its knowledge, its culture, and much more: its entire worldview.
But for how much longer?

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