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Google sets out to save dying languages

Phys.org - Thu 21 Jun 12

Google on Wednesday set out to save the world's dying languages.

Google backs new Endangered Languages Project to help preserve over 3,000 languages

The Verge - Thu 21 Jun 12

One of the peculiarities of internet-influenced globalization is that even as more information than ever can be archived, things like niche languages are at risk of disappearing. ...

Google fights to save 3,054 languages

CNN - Thu 21 Jun 12

Will you be any worse off the moment humans cease to speak in Aragonese? How about Navajo, or Ojibwa? Or Koro, a language only just discovered in a tiny corner of northeast India?

New Google project helps preserve dying languages

FOXNews - Thu 21 Jun 12

Google is launching a new project to help save over 3,000 dying languages. It?s called the Endangered Languages project, and it's backed by an international coalition of scholars and linguists

Endangered Languages Project: Google Wants To Save 3,000 Languages Under Threat (Thanks Partly To Google)

TechCrunch - Thu 21 Jun 12

Google, along with other major forces of our dot-com times, has played a huge part in making English the lingua franca of the Internet, but today brings news of an effort it's making to counterbalance ...

Google 'to save endangered languages'

Telegraph.co.uk Tech - Thu 21 Jun 12

Google has launched a new website in a bid to save endangered languages from disappearing forever.