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Roberto Zariquiey; Mónica Arakaki; Javier Vera; Guido Torres-Orihuela; Claret Cuba-Raime; Carlos Barrientos; Aracelli García; Adriano Ingunza; Harald Hammarström – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2022
The world harbours a diversity of some 6,500 mutually unintelligible languages. As has been increasingly observed by linguists, many minority languages are becoming endangered and will be lost forever if not documented. The increased urgency has led to the development of several global endangerment databases and a more fine-grained understanding…
Descriptors: Databases, Language Research, Documentation, Language Minorities
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Delphine Bernhard; Anne-Laure Ligozat; Myriam Bras; Fanny Martin; Marianne Vergez-Couret; Pascale Erhart; Jean Sibille; Amalia Todirascu; Philippe Boula de Mareüil; Dominique Huck – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2021
In contrast to French, the vast majority of regional languages of France can be considered as under-resourced. In this article, we present the results of a research project aiming to produce annotated resources for three regional languages of France: Alsatian, Occitan, and Picard. These languages cover three different language families (Germanic…
Descriptors: French, Sociolinguistics, Foreign Countries, Language Variation
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Kaufman, Daniel; Finkel, Raphael – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2018
In this paper we present Kratylos, at www.kratylos.org/, a web application that creates searchable multimedia corpora from data collections in diverse formats, including collections of interlinearized glossed text (IGT) and dictionaries. There exists a crucial lacuna in the electronic ecology that supports language documentation and linguistic…
Descriptors: Language Research, Multimedia Materials, Documentation, Syntax
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Haspelmath, Martin – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2017
Linguists are sometimes confronted with choices concerning language names. For example, one and the same language may be referred to as Persian or Farsi. This short paper discusses some principles that one might use for making decisions when there are variant forms in use, or when one feels that none of the existing names is appropriate. The…
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Planning, Databases, Second Languages
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Czaykowska-Higgins, Ewa; Holmes, Martin D.; Kell, Sarah M. – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2014
This paper describes the evolution of a lexical resource project for Nxa?amxcín, an endangered Salish language, from the project's inception in the 1990s, based on legacy materials recorded in the 1960s and 1970s, to its current form as an online database that is transformable into various print and web-based formats for varying uses. We…
Descriptors: Dictionaries, Language Research, Documentation, Standards
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Bowern, Claire – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2016
Here I present the background to, and a description of, a newly developed database of historical and contemporary lexical data for Australian languages (Chirila), concentrating on the Pama-Nyungan family (the largest family in the country). While the database was initially developed in order to facilitate research on cognate words and…
Descriptors: Indigenous Populations, Uncommonly Taught Languages, Language Research, Databases
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Vallejos, Rosa – Language Documentation & Conservation, 2014
This paper highlights the role of speech community members on a series of interconnected projects to document, study and maintain Kokama, a deeply endangered language from the Peruvian Amazon. The remaining fluent speakers of the language are mostly older than 60 years of age, are spread out across various small villages, and speak the language in…
Descriptors: Language Research, Language Maintenance, Research Methodology, Foreign Countries