Linguists in Siberia record dying tongues

From Seattle, at the American Association for the Advancement of Science Annual Meeting

Researchers trekking through remote Russian villages have identified and interviewed some of the last remaining speakers of two Turkic languages.

K. David Harrison of Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania and his colleague Gregory Anderson recently visited villages along the Chulym River in Siberia, where indigenous people once communicated in a language they call Ös and that Russians refer to as Middle Chulym.