Endangered Languages and New Technologies

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Cambridge University PressEdition: Illustrated, 12/4/2014EAN 9781107049598, ISBN10: 1107049598Hardcover, 228 pages, 23.9 x 15.2 x 2 cmLanguage: EnglishAt a time when many of the wo rld's languages are at risk of extinction, the imperative to document, analyse and teach them before time runs out is very great. At this critical time new technologies, such as visual and aural archiving, digitisation of textual resources, electronic mapping and social media, have the potential to play an integral role in language maintenance and revitalisation. Drawing on studies of endangered languages from around the world - Europe, Asia, Africa and North and South America - this volume considers how these new resources might best be applied, and the problems that they can bring. It also re-assesses more traditional techniques of documentation in light of new technologies and works towards achieving a practicable synthesis of old and new methodologies. This accessible volume will be of interest to researchers in language endangerment, language typology and linguistic anthropology, and to community members working in native language maintenance.Introductory essay. Endangered languages in the new multilingual order per genus et differentiam Nicholas OstlerPart I. Creating New Technologies for Endangered Languages1. The Kiranti comparable corpusa prototype corpus for the comparison of Kiranti languages and mythology Aimée Lahaussois2. European dialect syntaxtowards an infrastructure for documentation and research of endangered dialects Sjef Barbiers3. Keyboard layoutslessons from the Meꞌphaa and Sochiapam Chinantec designs Hugh Paterson, III4. Rule-based machine translation for Aymara Matt Coler and Petr Homola5. Data management and analysis for endangered languages Dorothee Beermann6. Endangered languages, technology and learningimmediate applications and long-term considerations Russell HugoPart II. Applying New Technologies to Endangered Languages7. Digital curation and event-driven methods at the service of endangered languages Bernard Bel and Médéric Gasquet-Cyrus8. 'Allant contre vent et mathée'Jèrriais in the twenty-first century Anthony Scott Warren and Geraint Jennings9. The use of new technologies in the preservation of an endangered languagethe case of Frisian Tjeerd de Graaf, Cor van der Meer and Lysbeth Jongbloed-Faber10. Language description and documentation from the native speaker's point of viewthe case of the Tundra Yukaghir Cecilia Odé11. American Indian sign languagedocumentary linguistic methodologies and technologies Jeffrey E. Davis. Show more