“I will soon go berry-picking and I will take my language with me.” So I was told some years ago by Marta Kongaraeva, one of the last fluent speakers of a language of a unique group of people from Siberia known as Tofa, who traditionally practiced a form of a hunting/gathering that used reindeer as […]
Author Archives: Gregory D.S. Anderson
Gregory is the founder, President and Director of the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, a non‐profit organization dedicated to the documentation, revitalization, and maintenance of endangered languages. Dr. Anderson has degrees in Linguistics from Harvard (A. B. 1989) and the University of Chicago (PhD 2000). He has published widely in the fields of historical linguistics, descriptive grammar, morphology, verb typology, and the linguistics of endangered and minority languages of Siberia, India, Papua New Guinea, Native North America and Africa.