The Endangered Languages Project

[galaxyrocker]

I know I can't be the only one here who has an interest in endangered and minority languages. Because of that, I would like to share a website I just came upon for the Endangered Languages Project, which seeks to serve as a one-stop online resource for samples and research, as well as hosting a forum to discuss learning them and reviving them and just generally increasing/stopping the decrease of linguistic diversity.

I haven't had the chance to go over it in depth, but it looks like a really interesting website, and I might do a write-up in my log once I get the chance to go over it.

[Systematiker]

This is really neat! I've got an interest in some minority languages, and now all these...wow, I'm going to have to look through this in detail.

[lingua]

This looks like a useful resource. I was surprised by how many were in the US. I assume they are mostly native Indian languages. I also checked the Italy site and was surprised to see so many there. I am interested in Italian dialects and languages such as Sicilian. Some day when I no longer have to work and have more free time I plan to study them.

[whatiftheblog]

There's also the Endangered Language Alliance, a sister (?) org: http://elalliance.org/ I know they've contributed to ELP in the past.

An ELA co-founder, a friend of a friend of mine, also wrote this fabulous piece on Hawaiian Sign Language: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/a ... n-language

[galaxyrocker]

There's also the Endangered Language Alliance, a sister (?) org: http://elalliance.org/ I know they've contributed to ELP in the past.

An ELA co-founder, a friend of a friend of mine, also wrote this fabulous piece on Hawaiian Sign Language: https://www.theguardian.com/news/2016/a ... n-language

Thanks for just distracting me more! Now I'm going to have to review both of them in depth!

[aokoye]

Among other resources:
The UNESCO Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger. It's probably a bit out of date as I think it was last updated in 2010 but it's interesting to look at.

The University of Hawaii has a free, open access, journal on language documentation and revitalization called Language Documentation and Conservation. The most volume of the journal is from Dec 2016

The Linguistic Society of America has a nice FAQ type of intro on language endangerment that includes touching on things like "but isn't that the same as what happened to Latin and Greek?" (The quick answer to that is - no.)

[Saim]

I also checked the Italy site and was surprised to see so many there.

Shouldn't be so surprising, Italy is by far the most linguistically diverse state in Western Europe.

[IronMike]

This threads seems familiar. I thought I read this before.

[Bakunin]

The University of Hawaii has a free, open access, journal on language documentation and revitalization called Language Documentation and Conservation. The most volume of the journal is from Dec 2016

Wow, thanks for posting that! Volume 8 has a special focus on working with tone languages, this is exactly what I need right now! I've recently started analysing the tonal system of a Lao dialect (not endangered but also not well documented), raising plenty of questions, and the first two papers I've read have already given me valuable ideas on what to elicit and what tools there are to support tone analysis.

[aokoye]

Wow, thanks for posting that! Volume 8 has a special focus on working with tone languages, this is exactly what I need right now! I've recently started analysing the tonal system of a Lao dialect (not endangered but also not well documented), raising plenty of questions, and the first two papers I've read have already given me valuable ideas on what to elicit and what tools there are to support tone analysis.

No problem! You might want to also find and read/skim papers that have been written documenting endangered languages that are tonal to see examples of their methodology.