Preserving rare languages: Embracing the future
The Economist - Thu 23 Feb 12Quick, remind me: how do you say "lights, camera, action"? THE phrase "use it or lose it" applies to few things more forcefully than to obscure languages. A tongue that is not spoken will shrivel ...
Digital tools 'to save languages'
BBC News - Sat 18 Feb 12Facebook, YouTube and even texting will be the salvation of many of the world's endangered languages, scientists believe.
Podcast: Saving Endangered Languages
Science Now - Fri 17 Feb 12What can be done to preserve dying tongues?
Dying languages to be preserved in talking dictionaries
The Independent - Fri 17 Feb 12Some of the thousands of endangered languages destined to soon become extinct because so few people are speaking them are being preserved in the form of digital "talking dictionaries", designed ...
'Talking dictionaries' document vanishing languages
Phys.org - Fri 17 Feb 12Digital technology is coming to the rescue of some of the world's most endangered languages. Linguists from National Geographic's Enduring Voices project who are racing to document and revitalize ...
'Talking dictionaries' document vanishing languages, Eurekalert - Fri 17 Feb 12Pictures: See and Hear Last Speakers of Dying Languages
National Geographic - Fri 17 Feb 12Faces and recorded voices tell the stories of endangered languages, thanks to new "talking dictionaries."
Native Americans Fight to Save Endangered Languages
Livescience - Fri 17 Feb 12Some of the world's languages are now spoken by only a handful of people.
American Indian Movement Song
Livescience - Fri 17 Feb 12Margaret Noori sings a traditional song in the Ashininaabemowin of the Ojibwe people of Michigan.
Digital Dictionaries Help Save Vanishing Languages
Discovery News - Fri 17 Feb 12Two linguists aim to save endangered languages using digital multimedia and the Internet.
Internet aids endangered world languages
UPI - Mon 20 Feb 12VANCOUVER, British Columbia, Feb. 20 (UPI) -- Near-extinct languages, spoken by only small groups of people around the world, could be saved by social media networks and the Internet, U.S. researchers ...
Social media saving endangered languages
UPI - Sat 18 Feb 12OTTAWA, Feb. 18 (UPI) -- A scientist says digital tools including Facebook, YouTube and text messaging will save some of the world's endangered languages.
Internet may save endangered languages
Telegraph.co.uk Tech - Sat 18 Feb 12Vanishing languages spoken by only small groups of people around the world could be saved from extinction by social media networks and the internet.
How social media help save an endangered language
HealthCanal - Fri 17 Feb 12ANN ARBOR, Mich.--There was a time when everyone living in Michigan grew up speaking the native language of the area's indigenous people. Now less than 10 people born in the state are fluent, ...