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Published on June 21, 2012
GOOGLE SETS OUT TO SAVE DYING LANGUAGES
- Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0cm 5.4pt 0cm 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0cm; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;} In an alliance with scholars and linguists, it has launched an endangered languages website where people can find, share, and store information about dialects in danger of disappearing.
"People can share their knowledge and research directly through the site and help keep the content up-to-date," project managers Clara Rivera Rodriguez and Jason Rissman said in a blog post.
"A diverse group of collaborators have already begun to contribute content ranging from 18th-century manuscripts to modern teaching tools like video and audio language samples and knowledge-sharing articles."
The website at endangeredlanguages.com is designed to let users upload video, audio, or text files and encourages them to memorialize recordings of rare dialects.
Only half of the approximately 7000 languages spoken today are expected to survive past the end of the century, according to a project video on YouTube.
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Armenia is celebrating the day of Doctors today. President of Armenian Medical Association Parunak Zelveyan said today during the press conference that any person wearing white gown is more respected ...PRESIDENT BAKO SAHAKYAN SIGNED A DECREE
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London's famous Regent Street has raised state flags of all countries that will participate in the Olympic games.
According to turkish media, Turkish state flag was not among all the other flags, though ...PRESIDENT SERZH SARGSYAN RECEIVED TODAY REPRESENTATIVES OF THE WORLD BANK
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More than 80 people have been killed in a wave of communal violence in western Myanmar this month, a government official said Thursday, as local people said they still feared for their lives.About 71 ...RUSSIA AND USA ARE NOT COMING TO A MUTUAL AGREEMENT
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With 75 for, 47 against and 1 abstained votes, NA confirmed GOAM program. We should note that ARF, Prosperous Armenia, ANC and Heritage parties had announced that they will vote against.RUSSIA FINALLY RECEIVES CAPTAIN'S APOLOGY FROM ARSHAVIN
Russia captain Andrey Arshavin has officially apologized for the team's bush-league performance at Euro 2012. Dick Advocaat's charges finished third in their Group A and despite fans' high expectations ...FOUR HANGED IN PUBLIC IN TEHRAN
Iran Human Rights, June 20: According to the Iranian state-run media, four prisoners were hanged publicly in Tehran early morning on June 20. According to the official website of the Iranian judiciary ...
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