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TechNewsWorld: Google Embarks on Language Rescue Mission
Jun 21, 2012 – Peter Suciu

Although Google has been criticized for spreading itself too thin by undertaking projects that on the surface have little to do with its core mission, that might not be true of its latest philanthropic endeavor. "Google's core goal is to make information accessible," noted tech analyst Rob Enderle. "If a language dies out, then the information that was created with it likely dies as well."

Latin maybe the most famous "dead" language, at least in that it isn't widely spoken beyond its use by the Catholic Church, but it is not lost to the ages. Linguists have been warning that nearly all human languages -- save for the most commonly spoken tongues -- could become extinct within the next 200 years.

Of the 7,000 languages currently spoken around the globe, 50 percent will not survive the century, according to the Endangered Languages Project, which aims to preserve these languages by uploading video, audio and even text files of rare dialects to a central website.

The project is a collaboration between the First Peoples' Cultural Council, the Institute for Language Information and Technology at Eastern Michigan University, and Google's (Nasdaq: GOOG) philanthropic arm, Google.org.

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