endangered languages Archives

How does COVID-19 threaten endangered languages?

June 11, 2020 || Julie Anderson

Tags: Andaman Islands, Anvita Abbi, COVID-19, endangered languages, Great Andamanese, heritage language, language extinction, pandemic, speaker community

Endangered languages often exist in a situation where they have a dwindling group of mostly older speakers, and their community may be marginalized or otherwise not valued and supported. Because of this already precarious situation, the loss of life among that final group of speakers brings a double tragedy: loss of loved ones, and also […]

PanLex at WikidataCon 2019

November 20, 2019 || Benjamin Yang

Categories: Events, News, PanLex Database

Tags: crowdsourcing, data gathering, endangered languages, India, keynote, lexical data, linguistic diversity, linked data, Noam Chomsky, Oscar the Grouch, Pāṇini, structured data, Wikidata, WikidataCon 2019

On October 25, 02019, PanLex was honored to present the first keynote speech at WikidataCon in Berlin, Germany. As our representative, I was excited to share PanLex’s ideas about the importance of linguistic diversity and lexical data’s role in helping to preserve that diversity with the staff, volunteers, and users of Wikidata. The Wikidata audience […]