Tools for language documentation presented at Charting Vanishing Voices workshop

[Dave Pearson]

Scholars and digital archivists are coming together 29-30 June for a
workshop entitled "Charting Vanishing Voices: A Collaborative Workshop to
Map Endangered Oral Cultures." The event is being held in England at
Cambridge University's Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences and
Humanities (CRASSH). Martin Raymond of SIL's Non-Roman Script Initiative
<http://scripts.sil.org/cms/scripts/page.php?item_id=Welcome>  will
introduce several new tools for language documentation including
<http://www.scriptsource.org/> ScriptSource and EGIDS
<http://www.sil.org/~simonsg/preprint/EGIDS.pdf> . The new ScriptSource web
site provides a venue for documenting the world's writing systems. The
Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale (EGIDS) is designed to
establish a language's level of endangerment. This new scale will be applied
to languages in the 17th edition of Ethnologue, which is scheduled for
publication in early 2013.

 

Dave Pearson

Permanent Representative to UNESCO

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