The Endangered Languages Project

为在全球范围内保护和记录语言提供支持的项目

关于濒危语言项目

Humanity today is facing a massive extinction: languages are disappearing at an unprecedented pace. And when that happens, a unique vision of the world is lost. With every language that dies we lose an enormous cultural heritage; the understanding of how humans relate to the world around us; scientific, medical and botanical knowledge; and most importantly, we lose the expression of communities’ humor, love and life. In short, we lose the testimony of centuries of life.

Languages are entities that are alive and in constant flux, and their extinction is not new; however, the pace at which languages are disappearing today has no precedent and is alarming. Over 40 percent of the world’s approximate 7,000 languages are at risk of disappearing. But today we have tools and technology at our fingertips that could become a game changer.

The Endangered Languages Project puts technology at the service of the organizations and individuals working to confront the language endangerment by documenting, preserving and teaching them. Through this website, users can not only access the most up to date and comprehensive information on Endangered Languages as well as samples being provided by partners, but also play an active role in putting their languages online by submitting information or samples in the form of text, audio or video files. In addition, users will be able to share best practices and case studies through a knowledge sharing section and through joining relevant Google Groups.

Google oversaw the development and launch of this project with the long term goal for it to be led by true experts in the field of language preservation. As such, oversight of the project has transitioned to First Peoples' Cultural Council and The Institute for Language Information and Technology (The Linguist List) at Eastern Michigan University in coordination with the Governance Committee.

This website was designed and developed with the help of Vizzuality and Exygy.

关于此网站中的语言信息

The languages included in this project and the information displayed about them are provided by the Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat), produced by the University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and The Institute for Language Information and Technology (The LINGUIST List) at Eastern Michigan University, with funding provided by the National Science Foundation (Grant #1058096) and supported by a team of global experts. While ELCat is a three-year project that only began in the fall of 2011, it is being shared through this site so that feedback from language communities and scholars worldwide can be incorporated to update the world’s knowledge about its most at-risk languages. This means that the languages included on this site and the information presented about them is intended to change over time.

More information:
About the Catalogue of Endangered Languages
About Why Endangered Languages are So Important
About Silent, Sleeping, and Recently Extinct Languages

有关语言多样性联盟

如果没有来自世界各地的一些团体的协助，此项目就不可能实现，这些团体为项目的启动做出了不可磨灭的贡献。我们创建了语言多样性联盟，该联盟隶属于濒危语言项目。语言多样性联盟的使命在于加快、巩固和促进濒危语言的记录工作，为那些保护和复兴其语言的社区提供支持，让人们更加关注如何解决濒危语言所面临的威胁。如果您的组织有意为此保护濒危语言的协作事业贡献一份力量，您随时可以申请加入联盟。

成员

  • Alaska Native Language Archive (ANLA)
  • Asociación Cultural Parola
  • Association for Cultural Equity
  • CBC Radio
  • Center for American Indian Languages
  • Coushatta Tribe of Louisiana
  • Endangered Language Alliance
  • First Peoples’ Cultural Council
  • Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia
  • Indigenous Language Institute
  • Laboratório de Linguas Indígenas, Universidade de Brasília
  • Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages
  • Mohawk Council of Akwesasne
  • Museum of the Cherokee Indian
  • National Folklore Support Centre
  • PanLex (The Long Now Foundation)
  • Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians
  • The Chontal Project in the DoBeS Archive
  • The DoBES Project on Taa
  • The Endangered Languages Catalogue team at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa
  • The John Carter Brown Library at Brown University
  • The Language Archive at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
  • The LINGUIST List
  • The Myaamia Project
  • The Rosetta Project (The Long Now Foundation)
  • Transparent Language, Inc.
  • UCLA Phonetics Laboratory
  • University of Pennsylvania Libraries
  • World Oral Literature Project

开办此网站的宗旨是让人们能够直接为濒危语言项目做出贡献。尽管我们不能一一给每个咨询给予回复，也不接受融资请求，但您仍可以填写此表单提议重大合作机遇，或通过此表单申请成为被举报内容的审核员。有关如何与 Google 联系的信息，请访问我们的联系页面。

The Alliance Governance Committee

This project is being guided by an active Governance Committee that bring diverse perspectives, talents and commitments to the project. Membership will be by invitation only. Current members are:

  • Daniel Kaufman, Endangered Language Alliance
  • Daryl Baldwin & Andrew Strack, The Myaamia Project
  • Gregory Anderson & K. David Harrison, Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages
  • Helen Aristar-Dry & Anthony Aristar, The LINGUIST List
  • Inee Slaughter, Indigenous Language Institute
  • Tracey Herbert & Peter Brand, First Peoples' Cultural Council
  • Lyle Campbell, University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
  • Mark Turin, World Oral Literature Project
  • Panchanan Mohanty, University of Hyderabad
  • Paul Trilsbeek & Sebastian Drude, The Language Archive at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics
  • Susan Penfield, University of Arizona
  • Kevin Lowe & Faith Baisden, First Languages Australia
  • Jason Rissman & Ari Bezman, Google, Inc.

内容准则

濒危语言项目的目的在于促进有消亡威胁的语言的相关信息交流。请在向本网站提交内容时牢记这一目的。任何被审核员视为不符合这一目的的内容都将会删除。

您应自行承担与自己内容有关的责任以及将其提交到濒危语言项目的后果。对于您上传的任何内容，您都必须拥有将其发布到此网站所需的许可、权利或得到相关人员的同意和批准。

请只添加适合公开在线分享的内容。对于语言使用者不愿分享的宗教资料或其他内容，请勿上传。如果您的视频中出现了其他人，请确保所有的语言使用者都已充分了解相关情况并同意您在互联网上分享该视频。有关参考信息，请参阅美国人类学协会道德准则。

大多数上传到濒危语言项目的内容都将在几个相关的 Google 产品和服务上托管，包括 YouTube、Picasa 和 Google 文档。这些服务都有自己专用的产品政策和内容准则。除了这些条款之外，所有通过其他 Google 产品或服务提交的内容还必须遵守其各自的条款。这些条款包括但不限于：禁止提交包含色情、淫秽、恋童、人兽交或其他色情资料的内容；仇恨或暴力内容；骚扰内容或侵犯他人隐私权的内容。

不得将濒危语言项目用于非法用途或用来宣传危险及非法的行为。

我们不允许提交垃圾内容或传播恶意软件和病毒。

提交评论

濒危语言项目旨在提供信息分享的协作空间。因此我们欢迎用户提交针对网站内容的评论和反馈。在对濒危语言项目网站显示的内容发表评论时，请遵守以下准则：

  • 确保评论通俗易懂。使用正确的语法并避免错别字。请勿使用过多的大写字母和标点。
  • 确保评论有用。发表内容清晰、有价值且可信度高的信息。
  • 要有礼貌。请勿攻击他人或发表侮辱、仇恨、威胁或骚扰性的内容。
  • 被视为偏离主题或者其他方面违反了这些政策的评论将被删除。
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