World in Words Podcast: Language Life and Death in New York by The World published on 2013-01-16T15:24:29Z Linguist Mark Turin takes us on a whirlwind tour of New York to explore a few of its 800 languages. Some thrive, at least briefly. Some survive in spite of the odds. Some live on through the words they loan to English and other immigrant tongues. But nearly all of them eventually die. For more: http://www.theworld.org/language Genre Podcast