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Revista Brasileira de Linguística AntropológicaA concise, accessible introduction to language endangerment and why it is one of the most urgent challenges of our times. 58% of the world's languages—or, approximately 4,000 languages—are endangered. When we break this figure down, we realize that roughly ten percent of languages have fewer than ten language keepers.
Matthias Brenzinger, Sheena Shah
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Endangered Languages: A Systematic Qualitative Study of Socio-Cultural Impacts and Revitalisation
Darnioji daugiakalbystėThis study investigates endangered language preservation through three research questions: risk factors for endangerment, socio-cultural effects of language loss, and complexities in preservation and revitalisation.
Awal Abdul
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Revitalizing Endangered Languages: AI-powered language learning as a catalyst for language appreciation [PDF]
arXiv.org, 2023 According to UNESCO, there are nearly 7,000 languages spoken worldwide, of which around 3,000 languages are in danger of disappearing before the end of the century.
Dinesh Kumar Nanduri +1 more
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How can NLP Help Revitalize Endangered Languages? A Case Study and Roadmap for the Cherokee Language [PDF]
Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2022 More than 43% of the languages spoken in the world are endangered, and language loss currently occurs at an accelerated rate because of globalization and neocolonialism.
Shiyue Zhang, B. Frey, Mohit Bansal
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Endangered Languages are not Low-Resourced! [PDF]
Multilingual Facilitation, 2021 The term low-resourced has been tossed around in the field of natural language processing to a degree that almost any language that is not English can be called "low-resourced"; sometimes even just for the sake of making a mundane or mediocre paper ...
Mika Hämäläinen
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Leveraging Pre-Trained Representations to Improve Access to Untranscribed Speech from Endangered Languages [PDF]
Automatic Speech Recognition & Understanding, 2021 Pre-trained speech representations like wav2vec 2.0 are a powerful tool for automatic speech recognition (ASR). Yet many endangered languages lack sufficient data for pre-training such models, or are predominantly oral vernaculars without a standardised ...
Nay San +11 more
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The Dimensions of Morphosyntactic Variation: Whorf, Greenberg and Nichols were right
Linguistic Typology at the Crossroads, 2023 We examine a database of 3089 languages coded for 351 morphosyntactic features, including almost all of the morphosyntactic features found in The World Atlas of Language Structures (Dryer & Haspelmath 2013).
Siva Kalyan, Mark Donohue
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Refusing “Endangered Languages” Narratives
Daedalus, 2023 Indigenous language endangerment is a global crisis, and in response, a normative “endangered languages” narrative about the crisis has developed. Though seemingly beneficent and accurate in many of its points, this narrative can also cause harm to ...
Wesley Y. Leonard
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UNESCO’s Atlas on Endangered Languages and the Local Context
SEEU Review, 2021 This article analyses the overall development of the endangered language around the world in reference to UNESCO’s Atlas of World Endangered Languages and reflects on the local context.
Poshka Agim
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Endangered languages: The case of Irish Gaelic [PDF]
Training, Language and Culture, 2018 Research into why some languages die and why other languages survive is an important area of linguistic and cultural research. Languages represent a culture and when the language dies, more often than not, the culture it expresses dies with it.
Peter McGee
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