A Dead Indian Language Is Brought Back to Life - washingtonpost.com

A Dead Indian Language Is Brought Back to Life - washingtonpost.com:

But now, in a story with starring roles for a university linguist, sloppy 17th-century scribes and a perfectionist Hollywood director making a movie about Jamestown, the language that scholars call Virginia Algonquian has come back from the dead.

The audience's desire for realism in movies is turning up in unexpected ways, including employment for linguists.