SA: There are more than seven thousand languages in the world. More than 700 spoken in New York City. Perhaps you've heard 

RP: Seke is spoken by about 700 people in five villages of Nepal

*Seke speaker 

RP: Wakhi from Tajikistan

*Wakhi speaker 

RP: Nahuatl which was the language of the Aztecs 

*Nahuatl speaker

SA: Linguist Ross Perlin says half of the words languages are endangered

RP: Sure languages have come and gone over the course of history but that process has really accelerated with the spread of few large language especially now coming from nation states and it's coming from education systems and 24 hour media 

SA: Perlin's book Language City chronicles the linguistic history of New York through the endangered langauge alliance he works to record, document, and preserve mother tongues. 

RP: Creating dictionaries and grammars and archiving and recording the stories and songs of now well over a hundred languages

SA: Including the original language of the city Lenapi. Manhattan is a Native American word 

RP: What the word meant was the place where we get bows, as in bows and arrows 

SA: Referring to a grove of hickory trees at the southern tip of the island. Sean Adams WCBS 880 News