Reuter’s has covered the new movie called “The Linguists” which just debuted at Sundance and has gotten great reviews.  Go check out the Trailer here:  http://www.thelinguists.com.  The basic premise is a PhD student is travelling the world with a friend trying to experience and record as many dying languages as possible.  There are a thousands of languages that will die in the next decade and some only have a few speakers living today.  So in an effort to record and document these languages these two adventures set out to find the last speakers of these languages.

Some other blogs that have mentioned the film are:

Language Log

Reuteur’s Article 

Try and support this movie and go see it if it’s in your town.  If it does well enough it will make it to other cities.