Meadhanan didseatach agus mion-chànanan

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A-rithist....ach carson nach ann.

"Facebook, YouTube and even texting will be the salvation of many of the world's endangered languages, scientists believe."

Eisimpleirean ann an Ameireaga a Tuath

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17081573

Dr Harrison says not all languages can survive, and many inevitably will be lost as remaining speakers die off. But he says the new digital tools do offer a way back from the brink for a lot of languages that seemed doomed just a few years ago.

He told BBC News: "Everything that people know about the planet, about plants, animals, about how to live sustainably, the polar ice caps, the different ecosystems that humans have survived in - all this knowledge is encoded in human cultures and languages, whereas only a tiny fraction of it is encoded in the scientific literature.

"If we care about sustainability and survival on the planet, we all benefit from having this knowledge base persevered."

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Agus barrachd mun aon chuspair an seo:


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/k-david-h ... 90171.html

Surpassing Americans in social media saturation, they (the Inuit) boast one of the highest percentages of Facebook membership of any community in the world.

Leena, aided by Microsoft's Local Language Program, recently led her people to undertake an audacious experiment: To tr*nsl*t* the entire Windows operating system and Office software into their tongue. Nunavut residents who sign up for Inuktitut computer classes are astonished upon entering the classroom to catch sight of their own unique native letters and words replacing terms like "file," "save" and "print." By inventing new words or repurposing old ones, a dedicated team re-wrote the entire English computer vocabulary, tens of thousands of words, into this ancient northern tongue. The new Inuktitut app for iPhone and iPad continues this trend, expanding the language into new tech environments.

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"Newly unveiled talking dictionaries aim to document, preserve endangered languages"

http://www.capebretonpost.com/Living/Te ... anguages/1

Eight new talking dictionaries were unveiled at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science in Vancouver on Friday.

The dictionaries contain more than 32,000 word entries in eight endangered languages. They comprise more than 24,000 audio recordings of native speakers pronouncing words and sentences, along with photos of cultural objects.

Among the participants on a panel about the use of digital tools at the AAAS meeting was Alfred (Bud) Lane, among the last known fluent speakers of Siletz Dee-ni, a Native American language spoken in Oregon. Lane has written that the talking dictionary is — and will be — one of the best resources in the struggle to keep his language alive.

An eighth dictionary is dedicated to Celtic tongues. Additional talking dictionaries are in production.

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Bha deasbaid inntinneach air a' chuspair seo air an làrach-lìn New Tactics an uiridh

http://www.newtactics.org/en/dialogue/u ... -languages