Smithsonians National Museum of Natural History | Recovering Voices- Sustaining Global Linguistic Diversity @nationalmuseumofnaturalhistory | Uploaded 7 years ago | Updated 2 hours ago
Meet Dr. Gabriela Pérez Báez, the Curator of Linguistics at the National Museum of Natural History. Learn about the world's incredible diversity of languages and the wealth of knowledge and information they hold. See how we all acquire language based on which sounds and sentences we get exposed to when we're young. Find out what the dialect you speak reveals about your history and culture. Take a journey with Gabriela to Mexico, where she is working with a Zapotec community to document and revitalize a threatened language. Learn what the Smithsonian’s Recovering Voices initiative is doing to sustain the world’s languages.

This program originally aired on May 25, 2017, as part of the Smithsonian Science How webcast series. Smithsonian Science How brings natural history science and research to middle-school students. For standards alignment and free teaching resources, visit: https://qrius.si.edu/teachers/online/science-teaching-resources/world-languages-endangerment-and-recovery