[lg policy] Endangered Languages Project Article in Language Magazine

[Harold Schiffman]

Endangered Languages Project Article in Language Magazine


An article in the new issue of Language magazine outlines the
organizations and collaborations behind the Endangered Languages
Project, including the LINGUIST List:

'In what might seem an unlikely partnership, a team comprised of
leading linguists, representatives of Indigenous language communities
and Google have created an online platform for sharing information on
the world’s most at-risk languages. Endangeredlanguages.com launched
in June of 2012, complete with more than 3,000 unique pages for
languages deemed to be at risk of disappearing. The Endangered
Languages Project is the result of an intense collaboration between
three groups who wouldn’t normally work so closely together, and
although the approach is not without challenges, it just might break
new ground in the arena of language learning and revitalization.

[...] With Google involved, the Aristars and Campbell could be
confident that the Endangered Languages Catalogue (ELCat) could find
its home online and reach a global audience. The ELCat Project would
eventually form the foundation of the website, giving each language
its unique page, accessible via a Google-powered map that would act as
the nexus of a web of data, images, videos, and information.'

Full story: http://languagemagazine.com/?page_id=5932

http://linguistlist.org/issues/24/24-1207.html

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