Google partners with UH Manoa linguists on endangered languages project (fwd link)

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Google partners with UH Manoa linguists on endangered languages project

University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Posted: Jun. 20, 2012

The Endangered Languages Project, a website developed by Google and backed
by the Alliance for Linguistic Diversity, launched today at
www.endangeredlanguages.com. A central feature of the website is the
Catalogue of Endangered Languages compiled by linguists at the University
of Hawaiʿi at Mānoa and the LINGUIST List at Eastern Michigan
University. The website is sponsored by a grant from the National Science
Foundation.

“The world’s languages are in crisis, but there is no comprehensive,
up-to-date source of information on the endangered languages of the world,”
said Lyle Campbell, director of the UH Mānoa Catalogue of Endangered
Languages project and a professor of Linguistics in the College of
Languages, Linguistics and Literature. “So the Catalogue is needed to
support documentation and revitalization of endangered languages, to inform
the public and scholars, to aid members of groups whose languages are in
peril, and to call attention to the languages most critically in need of
conservation.”

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