Internet-Linguistics

Documentation and Comparative Study of two Endangered Languages in Tibet: Wutunhua, DaohuaDr Yeshes Vodgsal Acuo, University of Nankai

Aboriginal heritage threatened through lost languages By Michael Edwards

Terralingua supports the integrated protection, maintenance and restoration of the biocultural diversity of life - the world's biological, cultural, and linguistic diversity - through an innovative program of research, education, policy and on-the-ground action.

Stabilizing Indigenous Languages

Seven Hypotheses on Language Loss: Causes and Cures (2) James Crawford Copyright © 1996 by James Crawford. All rights reserved.

The Impassioned Fight to Save Dying Languages More and more voices are speaking up to keep them from being overwhelmed by English and global pressures. By ROBERT LEE HOTZ, Times Science Writer

Finally, as the Internet becomes more linguistically diverse, it also extends a hand to minority languages and minority language speakers. The Internet's accessibility aids documentation in and of minority languages and enables minority language speakers separated by space to maintain a virtual contact through email, chat and instant messaging environments. Embracing emerging 'cool' technologies in a minority language can also play a role in persuading the youth of an endangered language community that the language is something that has relevance to them.

Internet Language

Oh what a tangled web we weave. Science and Spirit (November-December 2004), 34-5

Languages on the Web. Guardian Weekly, 25 January 2001

From the early history of Human-Computer Interaction (HCI) experts have acknowledged that Linguistics is one of the disciplines contributing to it. If one of the goals of HCI is to produce usable systems, then linguistics has also a role to play in web interface and web usability though this may not have been officially acknowledged yet.

Using the Internet to save languages from extinction. According to the Worldwatch Institute, there are 6,800 languages spoken in the world today; more than half of which are predicted to disappear by 2100. The ancient language of Ega, for example, is spoken by only 300 people in Ivory Coast and is in danger of going extinct. In an effort to preserve such languages, a group of linguists is organizing a huge online repository of the most rare languages in the world. Accessible to anyone over the Internet, it will provide researchers and laypeople with information about some of the most endangered languages on the planet.

A closing chapter looks briefly at the effects of the Internet on broader language, and at the use of the Internet by linguists and language students.

Global Internet Statistics (by Language) Sources and references Details by country Here are the latest estimated figures of the number of people online in each language zone (native speakers). We classify by languages instead of by countries, since people speaking the same language form their own online community no matter what country they happen to live in. (Projected E-commerce figures by country)

REVIEW OF LANGUAGE AND THE INTERNET Language and the Internet

The easy availability of the web also serves another purpose: to democratise the way linguists work. Allowing anyone to conduct his own impromptu linguistic research, some linguists hope, will do more to popularise their notion of studying the intricacy and charm of language as it really exists, not as killjoy prescriptivists think it should be.

Internet Resources for Linguistics

On this webpage you will find an annotated reference system to find everything related to Corpus Linguistics that is available on the Internet: Corpora, Concordances, Corpus Linguistics research efforts and events, software for tagging, annotation etc. If you can't find your site, simply send me an email and I will add it.  

African Languages / Linguistics

Linguistics Computing Resources on the Internet

Linguistic Resources on the Internet