Google Voyages To Rescue Jeopardized Languages

Online, July 7, 2012 (Newswire.com) - Google has announced in its blog that it is initiating to rescue the endangered languages of the world, for which it has launched a website called, the 'Endangered Languages Project' in alliance with some renowned scholars and linguists of the world. In the blog, Clara Rivera Rodriguez and Jason Rissman, the Product Managers, mentioned that the website with a noble cause will enable the people, who are keen to save their jeopardized languages by making them known to the world can discover, contribute and pile up knowledge and research about various dialects that are disappearing from the world. They also mentioned that, some group of scholars has already begun to share their information on the site comprising of manuscripts from the eighteenth century to contemporary e-learning aids like audio-video language samples, by sharing articles and documents, texts, etc.

Showing a green signal to the website, the endangeredlanguages.com, Rodriguez and Rissman said that, documentation of more than 3000 languages of the world, which are on the path of disappearing, is an important phase in the process of preserving the cultural diversity and transferring the language from one generation to the next. Hence, to rescue the endangered languages, the website will allow its users to upload audios, videos and text documents so that people can hear the recordings of various dialects and memorize them to pass it on to the upcoming generation. They said that high quality recording from a past generation and socializing it through various social media can help the new generation to learn the language and preserve it for future.

A video on 'endangered language' shared on YouTube reveals that there are approximately 7000 languages, currently spoken around the world, out of which only a half of them are expected to survive by the end of the century.