When do voices vanish? Upon the death of languages....

Lorsque les langues meurent…

CorrecteurOrthographiqueOffice — Sun, 21 Oct 2007 04:53:31 GMT

Mon collègue James Lyle parlait récemment des langues en danger sur l’autre blog de notre équipe il y

When Languages Die

Office Natural Language Team Blog — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 03:45:21 GMT

James was talking about endangered languages the other day. I have just finished reading David Harrison’s

re: When do voices vanish? Upon the death of languages....

K. David Harrison — Fri, 22 Jun 2007 01:39:44 GMT

Hi Michael,

Thanks to you (and your colleague Jennifer Shepherd) for your interest in language endangerment and for checking out my book "When Languages Die". I'd be very interested to hear your perspective on the language extinction crisis and how we might better leverage technology to avert it.

Best wishes,

K. David Harrison

re: When do voices vanish? Upon the death of languages....

Mike — Sat, 09 Jun 2007 22:39:00 GMT

David Crystal's earlier "Language Death" is a good read, and I've been meaning to take on Mark Abley's "Spoken Here: Travels Among Threatened Languages".