City of Dying Languages

It's funny that we tend to look in all the wrong places and then are surprised when we find that the thing we were looking for was right in our backyard. Something similar has happened to linguists when trying to document dying languages. The NY Times article Listening to (and Saving) the World’s Languages, describes NYC as a modern Babel, where rare and dying languages have found refuge. Now instead of traveling to geographically remote regions to find dying languages that more than likely will have died by the time of their arrival, linguists are on a search to document the rare languages that add to the linguistic diversity that is New York City's heritage.
I've lived in Queens all my life and I never knew that Bukhari is an endangered language. There must be countless other languages that city residents take for granted that are barely surviving on a global scale. Being able to conduct research right here in NYC must be exciting. The mere fact that minority languages have been able to thrive in NYC neighborhoods is remarkable and will offer invaluable access to linguists to be able to study and document them.