Video: Battle to save languages (fwd link)

[Phillip E Cash Cash]

Published: 27/07/2010 07:54
Cambridge, UK

Video: Battle to save languages

Hundreds of languages across the world are dying out. Valentina Jovanovski
talks to the World Oral Literature Project about the desperate race to save
them.

Out of the 6,700 languages spoken by people all over the world, a third are
in danger of extinction.

Preventing this, or at least slowing the process, is the massive challenge
faced by researchers and academics at the World Oral Literature Project,
which was established by Cambridge University in January 2009.

Dr Mark Turin, director of the project and research associate at the Museum
of Anthropology and Archaeology, said the project has attracted much
interest since its inception.

It works with local communities and fieldworkers who are now collecting and
recording texts, myths, songs, legends, proverbs, narratives and other
various literatures that can be used to save a language from vanishing
without record.

Access full article below:
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Universities/Battle-to-save-languages.htm
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