<font><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Google partners with UH Manoa linguists on endangered languages project</span><br style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><br style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa</span><br style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">Posted: Jun. 20, 2012</span><br style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
<br style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">The Endangered Languages Project, a website developed by Google and backed by the Alliance for Linguistic Diversity, launched today at <a href="http://www.endangeredlanguages.com">www.endangeredlanguages.com</a>. A central feature of the website is the Catalogue of Endangered Languages compiled by linguists at the University of Hawaiʿi at Mānoa and the LINGUIST List at Eastern Michigan University. The website is sponsored by a grant from the National Science Foundation. </span><br style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
<span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"> </span><br style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif">“The world’s languages are in crisis, but there is no comprehensive, up-to-date source of information on the endangered languages of the world,” said Lyle Campbell, director of the UH Mānoa Catalogue of Endangered Languages project and a professor of Linguistics in the College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature. “So the Catalogue is needed to support documentation and revitalization of endangered languages, to inform the public and scholars, to aid members of groups whose languages are in peril, and to call attention to the languages most critically in need of conservation.”</span><br style="font-family:times new roman,serif">
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