How Do You Save a Dying Language? Crowdsource It (fwd link)

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How Do You Save a Dying Language? Crowdsource It

NONA WILLIS ARONOWITZ
July 6, 2011
USA

Websites have already tackled language education, but it's not that
easy to learn Navajo or Lakota from places like Wikiversity or the
Rosetta Project. A 32-year-old South Dakotan is looking to fill that
gap. Biagio Arobba has launched LiveAndTell, a user-generated content
site for documenting and learning rare languages. It can work for any
language, but Arobba especially has his eye on preserving Native
American tongues. The site and its accompanying Facebook page
crowdsource endangered languages by speaking another that the next
generation already knows: the language of the Internet.

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