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Language preservation is the preservation of endangered or dead languages. With language death , studies in linguistics , anthropology , prehistory and psychology lose diversity. [ 1 ] As history is remembered with the help of historic preservation , language preservation maintains dying or dead languages for future studies in such fields.
The Rosetta Project is a global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers working to develop a contemporary version of the historic Rosetta Stone.Run by the Long Now Foundation, the project aims to create a survey and near-permanent archive of 1,500 languages that can enable comparative linguistic research and education and might help recover or revitalize lost languages in the ...
The ELP was launched in June 2012 with the intention of being a "comprehensive, up-to-date source of information on the endangered languages of the world" according to the director of the Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat), Lyle Campbell, a professor of linguistics in the Mānoa College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature.
PARADISEC is part of the worldwide community of language archives (Delaman [2] and the Open Language Archives Community [3]). PARADISEC's main motivation is to ensure that unique recordings of small languages are preserved for the future, and that researchers consider the future accessibility of their materials for other researchers, community ...
Preservation of the sound recordings in the archives was made possible through the support of federal grants in the mid-1980s, [2] and digital preservation of the sound recordings was conducted between 2016 and 2019 by Indiana University's Media Digitization and Preservation Initiative. The Archives of Traditional Music is currently working to ...
AILLA is a digital language archive dedicated to the digitization and preservation of primary data, such as field notes, texts, audio and video recordings, in or about Latin American indigenous languages. AILLA's holdings are available on the Internet and are open to the public wherever privacy and intellectual property concerns are met. AILLA ...
UNESCO flag. The UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger was an online publication containing a comprehensive list of the world's endangered languages.It originally replaced the Red Book of Endangered Languages as a title in print after a brief period of overlap before being transferred to an online-only publication.
The Esther Martinez Native American Languages Preservation Act funds programs that work "to preserve Native American languages." [1] It is named for Esther Martinez, a teacher and storyteller who lived to be 94 years old, and was nationally known for her dedication to preserving the Tewa language.