Endangered Languages Media Database

ELMeDa was created in summer 2007 as a pedagogical tool to be integrated in the teaching of the course "Revitalizing Languages" at the University of Toronto. ELMeDa is a collection of news releases about different efforts in the revitalization and maintenance of endangered and/or indigenous and/or local and/or minority languages around the world. Welcome to ELMeDa.

Tuesday, April 1, 2008

A blog about languages by Mark Liberman

Mark Liberman is a linguist and a computer scientist.

Some specific articles:

1. Japanese character attrition due to keyboards and cellphones
2. Mayan language revitalization
3. Judge orders a father to speak to his daughter in English or lose his visitation rights
Posted by anat at 8:08 AM
Labels: language loss, language policies, language revitalization efforts

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Electronic media (newspapers, magazines, podcasts, videos, blogs, community reports) coverage of linguistic diversity and potential loss thereof as well as of educational, political and legal efforts to rescue it, has increased in the course of the past few years.

Understanding how this complex matter is portrayed in the media we access on a daily basis willingly or not is not only an exercise of critical thinking but also the exercise of a civil right.

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UN Declaration of Linguistics Rights

  • CELP: Committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation
  • E-MELD: Electronic Metastructure for Endangered Languages Data
  • Ethnologue
  • Foundation for Endangered Languages
  • Indigenous Language Institute
  • National Geographic: Enduring Voices
  • OREL: Online Resources for Endangered Languages
  • Rosetta Stone: Endangered Language Program
  • Terralingua
  • UNESCO Intangible Heritage: Endangered Languages
  • UNESCO Red Book of Endangered Languages