Endangered Languages and New Technologies / edited by Mari C. Jones.

This book explores how new technologies have the potential to revolutionise the documentation, analysis and revitalisation of endangered languages.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface / Mari C. Jones -- Introduction : Endangered languages in the new multilingual order per genus et differentiam / Nicholas Ostler -- The Kiranti comparable corpus : a prototype corpus for the comparison of Kiranti languages and mythology / Aimée Lahaussois -- European dialect syntax : towards an infrastructure for documentation and research of endangered dialects / Sjef Barbiers -- Keyboard layouts : lessons from the Me'phaa and Sochiapam Chinantec designs / Hugh Paterson III -- Rule-based machine translation for Aymara / Matt Coler and Petr Homola -- Data management and analysis for endangered languages / Dorothee Beermann -- Endangered languages, technology and learning : immediate applications and long-term considerations / Russell Hugo -- Digital curation and event-driven methods at the service of endangered languages / Bernard Bel and Médéric Gasquet-Cyrus -- 'Allant contre vent et mathée' : Jèrriais in the twenty-first century / Anthony Scott Warren and Geraint Jennings -- The use of new technologies in the preservation of an endangered language : the case of Frisian / Tjeerd De Graaf, Cor Van Der Meer and Lysbeth Jongbloed-Faber -- Language description and documentation from the native speaker's point of view : the case of the Tundra Yukaghir / Cecilia Odé -- American Indian sign language : documentary linguistic methodologies and technologies / Jeffrey E. Davis.

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