One of my favorite stories about New York is of the professor of linguistics who traveled to South America to study one of the native languages there, who upon

One of my favorite stories about New York is of the professor of linguistics who traveled to South America to study one of the native languages there, who upon his arrival found the language to be extinct, only to discover upon his return to New York that it was still being spoken in Queens. I couldn’t find the original article, but the following describes half a dozen similar instances. https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/nyregion/29lost.html https://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/29/nyregion/29lost.html