Saving Endangered Languages from Being Forgotten (fwd link)

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Saving Endangered Languages from Being Forgotten

ScienceDaily (Jan. 28, 2010) — With only 3.000 speakers in Northwest
Siberia the Ob-Ugrian language Mansi is on the verge of extinction.
Predictions say it will be extinct in ten to twenty years at the
latest. The same holds true for Khanti, a member of the same language
family. It is for this reason that extensive documentation is so
important.

Johanna Laakso, professor for Finno-Ugrian Studies at the University
of Vienna concerns herself with the documentation of this and other
minority languages in the framework of an FWF project and the EU
project ELDIA.

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