Native Group Helps Google Preserve Endangered Languages (fwd link)

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Native Group Helps Google Preserve Endangered Languages
Google funds project to catalogue languages threatened with extinction

By Justina Reichel
Epoch Times Staff Created: June 27, 2012 Last Updated: June 28, 2012
Canada

The First Peoples’ Cultural Council, a first nations-run Crown
corporation based on Vancouver Island, has been chosen to oversee a
project developed by Google that seeks to preserve endangered
indigenous languages.

The Google Endangered Languages Project, launched June 21 to coincide
with National Aboriginal Day, invites language experts from around the
world to post videos, audio clips, books and other publications on its
website to catalogue languages that are in danger of becoming extinct.

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