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Google cataloging endangered languages

OMAR EL AKKAD - TECHNOLOGY REPORTER
The Globe and Mail
Published Thursday, Jun. 21 2012, 12:00 AM EDT

Google is attempting to build the world’s most comprehensive resource on
the thousands of spoken and written languages currently at risk of
extinction.

The search engine announced on Thursday the launch of the Endangered
Languages Project, a website that allows users to archive audio, video and
written information about the world’s rarest languages and dialects. The
project could prove a boon to cultural preservation in Canada, where dozens
of aboriginal languages are at risk of fading away.

The site already has an archive of information about more than 3,000
languages, or nearly half the number believed to be endangered around the
world. The list ranges from the Harsusi language, spoken by about 700
people in Oman, to the Assiniboine language, spoken natively by fewer than
150 people in parts of Alberta, Saskatchewan and Manitoba.

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