Tools for language documentation presented at Charting Vanishing Voices workshop

[King, Dr Alexander D.]

Martin just made his presentation here at the workshop and I think that Scriptsource.org<http://Scriptsource.org> looks like a fantastic resource. I will definitely spend some hours perusing it after I get home.

Just before Martin, Lyle Campbell gave a presentation on the website endangeredlanguages.com<http://endangeredlanguages.com> and the database and catalog behind it. It is clear to me that Google was hasty to rush to publicity. The linguists have a lot to add over the next few months and years. They have received hundreds of emails and I think I will wait a year at least before suggesting additions/corrections to the languages and groups I work with.

Finally, another great resource demonstrated today is glottolog, set up by linguists at MPI EVA in Leipzig. You should all check that out at glottolog.org<http://glottolog.org>

Alex

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On Jun 30, 2012, at 9:27 AM, "Dave Pearson" <Dave_Pearson at SIL.ORG<mailto:Dave_Pearson at SIL.ORG>> wrote:

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 ScriptSource<http://www.scriptsource.org/> 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.

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