Introducing the Endangered Languages Project

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The Endangered Languages Project is a website for people to find and share the most up-to-date and comprehensive information about the over 3,000 endangered languages of the world. Continue exploring at http://www.endangeredlanguages.com

Special thanks to those that helped make this video possible: Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages, Tom Guldemann and Chris Naumann DoBES, Laboratório de Linguas Indígenas, Universidade de Brasília, V. M. Gabov, Ivan Skoblin, Anna Badeyeva, Kafoté (Crispulo Martinez), Dagby Bolat, Ganibe Sebo, Anselmo Nuyado Ancapichun, Teresa Maripan, Javier Guenteo Guenteo, Milton Nein Neipan, Abamu Degio, Moreng Degio, Abamu Degio, Louis Kolisi, Alejo Barras, Lukeria Yakovlevna, Batsukh, Aydyng Byrtan-ool


I had no ideas on which channels to put this in...
EMPIREsays...

I'm all for gathering information, and if someone wants to research and document dying languages, that's fine, and should be done because it has historical relevance.

Actually trying to preserve dying languages? Moronic at best. Language is a tool. If it's dying it's because it's not being used enough, or in a relevant way. Why should something obsolete be artificially preserved and maintained? It's just another element to keep people closed in a particular system, pretending to be different from others.

Am I the only one who can't wait for a single language world?

legacy0100says...

Dialects gets created and die out all the time. It's just a matter of time and geographic location of a population. And if the isolation is long and severe enough you get new language. While it's interesting to document the different dialects and languages being spoken all throughout the world, trying to save them would be a tad too much in my opinion.

It's like trying to save leaves from decomposing. They get regenerated every summer. The old ones need to die out to give room for the new ones.

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