“Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues” is a tribute and call to action for linguistic diversity. A 15-minute motion poem (poem on film), each line comes from a different treasure or minority language.
The film premiered in New York City at the 2015 Margaret Mead Film Festival and was featured in the biannual Sadho Poetry Film Festival in New Delhi, India, where it won the Viewer's Choice Award.
To find out more, buy a copy of the DVD, or to donate to an endangered language organization, visit the Khonsay website.
Visit WWW.KHONSAY.COM to read the poem in-depth- its languages, speakers and background, as well to donate to language revitalization organizations. There are 6,500 languages spoken in the world. By the end of the century, more than half will disappear. Khonsay: Poem of Many Tongues is a tribute and call to action for linguistic diversity.