The Documentation of Endangered Altaic Languages and the Creation of a Digital Archive to safeguard linguistic diversity
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Language is a vehicle of intangible heritage and transmitsmany social and cultural concepts from generation togeneration. Half of the world's languages, including mostof the Altaic languages, are now in danger of extinction. The loss of a language means the loss of cultural andintellectual diversity. This paper describes a linguisticproject which aims to preserve the endangered Altaiclanguages. The ASK REAL (Altaic Society of Korea,Researches on Endangered Altaic Languages) team hasgathered linguistic resources from thirty-eight Altaiclanguages and plans to build an extensive digital archiveof all fifty-five of them. Through field research in minoritylanguage communities spread over a vast area of Eurasia,we acquired nearly three thousand lexical items of multimediadata, a few hundred grammatical constructions andanother few hundred examples of daily conversation foreach language. The data is converted into a standarddigital format and managed in a database. A small part ofthe collection is currently available to the public via aneasily accessible web interface with multilingualannotations for international users.
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Language is a vehicle of intangible heritage and transmitsmany social and cultural concepts from generation togeneration. Half of the world's languages, including mostof the Altaic languages, are now in danger of extinction. The loss of a language means the loss of cultural andintellectual diversity. This paper describes a linguisticproject which aims to preserve the endangered Altaiclanguages. The ASK REAL (Altaic Society of Korea,Researches on Endangered Altaic Languages) team hasgathered linguistic resources from thirty-eight Altaiclanguages and plans to build an extensive digital archiveof all fifty-five of them. Through field research in minoritylanguage communities spread over a vast area of Eurasia,we acquired nearly three thousand lexical items of multimediadata, a few hundred grammatical constructions andanother few hundred examples of daily conversation foreach language. The data is converted into a standarddigital format and managed in a database. A small part ofthe collection is currently available to the public via aneasily accessible web interface with multilingualannotations for international users.