Preserving and Revitalizing Endangered Languages: An Interview withThe Linguists

Endangered languages, endangered knowledge

ogist, and ethnobiologist. She is cofounder and President of Terralingua: Partnerships for Linguistic and Biological Diversity. Terralingua is an international NGO based in Washington, DC, devoted to supporting the world’s linguistic diversity and to exploring the links between linguistic, cultural, and biological diversity, through research, information, education, and policy. She is editor of...

Historical seismograms: Preserving an endangered species

The youth of seismology as a science, compared to the typical duration of seismic cycles, results in a relative scarcity of records of large earthquakes available for processing by modern analytical techniques, which in turn makes archived datasets of historical seismograms extremely valuable in order to enhance our understanding of the occurrence of large, destructive earthquakes. Unfortunatel...

Foundation for Endangered Languages

This paper concerns various language preservation projects in the Russian Far East that center on the production and dissemination of multimedia language teaching materials (DVD with textbook) with culturally adapted content, designed for use inside and outside the classroom. They refer to the endangered language of Itelmen as well as to endangered local variants of the Even and the Koryak lang...

Endangered Data for Endangered Languages: Digitizing Print dictionaries

This paper describes on-going work in dictionary digitization, and in particular the processing of OCRed text into a structured lexicon. The description is at a conceptual level, without implementation details. In decades of work on endangered languages, hundreds (or more) languages have been documented with print dictionaries. Into the 1980s, most such dictionaries were edited on paper media (...

Public health journals in own languages: an endangered species?