... where language extinction occurs. These language recovery programs would include recording of the endangered language, and conduct studies that would help experts and linguists determine how language and ... people's world view are among the things that would be most affected. The extinction of languages is not just about the death or loss of a different set of vocabulary and words. In a bigger ...

Endangered Languages of Austronesia (Oxford University Press, 2009), edited by Margaret Florey, is now published. ... language family then examines the historical relations between the languages, their diversity, and their distribution in the region, and reviews the state of ... Pacific and Regional Archive for Digital Sources in Endangered Cultures (PARADISEC) and the Resource Network for Linguistic ...

Daniel Everett: “Endangered languages, lost knowledge and the future” Some 40 percent of the world’s 6,912 known languages are endangered, says Everett, and that endangers science.  When we lose a language, we lose a whole way of life, a whole set of solutions to problems, a whole classification system and body of knowledge ...

One of the saddest things I ever heard on radio was a wax-cylinder recording of a woman singing a lullaby. Her name was Santu, and when the recording was made in 1910, she was 75. She had learned the song from her father, and though she knew the words, she had no idea what they meant. The language of the song was Beothuk, spoken by the natives of Newfoundland, who died out in 1829.

COURTESY: IANS Some 196 Indian languages are endangered, according to a recent Unesco study, and a worried lot of linguists, scholars and policy-makers are meeting in a two-day international seminar here Thursday to discuss how to save these language. ‘According to the ‘Unesco Atlas of the World’s languages in Danger, 2009′, India has around 196 endangered languages,

... ;s languages are spoken in the New Guinea region-about 1100 languages. The New Guinea region as defined here includes the whole of the island of New Guinea and offshore islands ... about 300 in the New Guinea region, and Non-Austronesian or Papuan languages, restricted to the New Guinea region and numbering some 800 languages. -- Bill Foley, DELP (Documenting Endangered Languages of the Pacific)

... affect the literature from the continent. The Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages and National Geographic are teaming up for a strong initiative to preserve Native American languages. Through the Enduring Voices Project, linguists will work with last speakers to document the stories and languages with film, photos, and audio. (Hat tip to Elizabeth Clark Appleton). In ...

... reasons they have been the leading language software for years. I love their efforts to preserve endangered languages and to help revitalize them. What an amazing thing! They have been used by the Military, Nasa and many other corporations. So, if you are looking for an educational gift this year, how about the gift of a second language? Check out ...

... write a novel? Language is a major theme in the book (one of my characters, Eli, is a linguist who studies endangered languages), and Quebec is a place where the question of language is unusually fraught. I wouldn't say that Montreal inspired the novel, exactly, but I thought it made for an interesting setting, and as the writing ...

... in learning Chinese characters. Variations of pinyin also are used as the written forms of several minority languages. Pinyin has now replaced other conventional spellings in China’s English-language ... for the Protection of the Ozone Layer, as well as the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species and other major environmental agreements. The question of environmental impacts ...

... Tom Colls An estimated 7,000 languages are being spoken around the world. But that number is expected to shrink ... Hagege. "Most people are not at all interested in the death of languages," he says. "If we are not cautious about the way English is progressing ... global database of languages, 473 languages are currently ( halen, ÅŸu anda ) classified as endangered. Among the ranks ...

... . 3. Australian aborigines mostly speak English. 4. The majority of aboriginal languages are known to be endangered. 5. There are only 15 aboriginal languages in Australia. 6. Aboriginal languages are classified by linguists as Pama-Nyungan languages and non-Pama Nyungan languages. 7. During the early years of British colonization Smallpox killed almost 50 % of the ...

... Hmong settlement. Hmong is Maid Wux’ first language and this beautiful and endangered local language is spoken fluently and daily in Hlib Ziangl, ... tree.My Hmong graduate student, Hoxsolwangd has been researching and documenting endangered Hmong languages for more than a decade and has made significant contributions in the field of linguistics. Hmong students of China and I established an ...

... take advantage of modern high-resolution displays. * species names accessible in 14 languages including scientific nomenclature. AND we have been given a copy of British Birds Interactive (BBi) to give ... Club has been launched as part of our commitment to supporting projects on Critically Endangered/Endangered birds and to Birdlife International’s ‘Preventing Extinctions Programme ...

... published results.  No one will allege conspiracy here; it's a non-controversial field of science.  (I do shed a tear for the idea that Fortran is an endangered language--if people can worry about the languages of the remote areas of the world being endangered they surely should also worry about Fortran and Lisp. )