[Corpora-List] why the funds for the endangered languages are not interested in electronic data beses?

[Yuri Tambovtsev]

Dear Corpora colleagues, 
we cannot understand why the funds for the endangered languages are not interested in the Corpora of the endangered languages or the texts in these languages in the elelctronic form? Electronic form is the form of the future. It makes the texts available to all the linguists in the world. Our small group of linguists and students is still working on saving the texts of the smaller world languages in computer electronic form. This time we have fed into computer the texts of the language of Soqotra. Soqotra is spoken on the island of Soqotra, which is situated in the Arabian sea a short distance from the Horn of Africa. It belongs to the Semitic languages. We are looking forward to hearing from those who can advise us on the inventory of Soqotra phonemes from the point of articulation, that is the place of articulation and the manner of articulation of Soqotra phonemes. We are also looking forward to hearing to our correct e-mail address yutamb at hotmail.com from those who knows if the data on the frequency of occurrence of Sokotra speech sounds were published? If not what linguistic journal could publish our data on the frequency of occurrence of Sokotra speech sounds? The frequency of speech sounds give us a sound picture of a language which is quite different from the analogical sound picture in any other language in the world. Hope to hear from those interested to yutamb at hotmail.com Yours sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev  
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