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Saving Diversity /
Vanishing Languages /
Inside Babel /
Voices on the Net /
Babel Bibliography /
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Voices on the Net
There are hundreds of websites about endangered languages. In a short time the Internet has become a tool for researchers to exchange information as well as an excellent way to store existing archives and create new ones. The Internet keeps endangered languages alive: transcriptions, dictionaries, audio, images and video on the Internet inform us about languages and cultures.
There are several interesting websites listed below. The list will continue to grow.
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Unesco az
Unesco’s Endangered Languages program attempts to protect linguistic diversity. The portal offers numerous texts to this end:
• UNESCO Universal Declaration on Cultural Diversity
• Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage
• Language vitality and endangerment
• Recommendations for Action Plans
The website presents information on many projects relating to endangered languages promoted by Unesco and allows users to consult an online version of Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger of Disappearing: after two print versions (1996 and 2001), information about endangered languages is now available on the internet (only the map of the African continent is currently available). Unesco recently launched the Register of Good Practices in Language Preservation.
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Linguistic List az
One of the most important meeting places on the Internet for those who work in or are passionate about linguistics chaired by professors Anthony Aristar and Helen Dry. Linguistic List – which started in 1990 – has opened a mailing list on various themes and the archive of Endangered Languages List is rich in content. The online resource area, which is partly managed in collaboration with Ethnologue, offers users the possibility to consult an extensive database that keeps track of languages that are already extinct.
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The International Clearing House for Endangered Languages az
Began with a proposal by the University of Tokyo and is a center for the collection of international documentation on languages, paying particular attention to the Asian and Pacific regions and to endangered languages. There is a section set aside for the Red Book on Endangered Languages, a project resulting from the work of numerous research centers, sponsored by Unesco. Extensive bibliographies and lots of material on Ainu, the unique, endangered language of Hokkaido, an island in the Japanese archipelago, of which is thought there are no ties to any other languages.
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Dokumentation Bedrother Sprachen az
The DOBES website (Dokumentation Bedrother Sprachen meaning documentation on endangered languages) is run by the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics in Nijmegen, The Netherlands and financed by the Volkswagen foundation that has allocated scholarship funds for work on the creation of a multimedia archive on endangered languages. There are currently twenty-six projects underway, all working to preserve dying languages from Lacandon spoken in Chapas to Salar spoken in Central Asia. The website houses collections of data on writing and grammar, audio and video recordings and photos.
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Ethnologue az
This is a catalog of languages spoken around the world, one of the most authoritative fonts, a project founded by SIL International in 1951. Every four years Ethnologue publishes a report that focuses on the linguistic situation. The fifteenth edition, recently published in both print and digital versions, catalogs 6,912 languages, of which 500 are currently endangered. According to Ethnologue, Papua New Guinea has the richest linguistic diversity (820 languages), while in North Korea there is only one. Ethnologue’s database, which is probably the most extensive list of known languages, offers many prompts.
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