TY - JOUR
KW - Endangered languages
KW - documentation
KW - Linguistic diversity
KW - Altaic languages
KW - Documentary linguistics
KW - Manchu-tungusic
KW - Mongolic
KW - Turkic
AU - Choi Woonho
AU - You Hyun-Jo
AU - Kim Juwon
AB - Language is a vehicle of intangible heritage and transmits many social and cultural concepts from generation to generation. Half of the world s languages, including most of the Altaic languages, are now in danger of extinction. The loss of a language means the loss of cultural and intellectual diversity. This paper describes a linguistic project which aims to preserve the endangered Altaic languages. The ASK REAL (Altaic Society of Korea, Researches on Endangered Altaic Languages) team has gathered linguistic resources from thirty-eight Altaic languages and plans to build an extensive digital archive of all fifty-five of them. Through field research in minority language communities spread over a vast area of Eurasia, we acquired nearly three thousand lexical items of multimedia data, a few hundred grammatical constructions and another few hundred examples of daily conversation for each language. The data is converted into a standard digital format and managed in a database. A small part of the collection is currently available to the public via an easily accessible web interface with multilingual annotations for international users.
BT - International Journal of Intangible Heritage
LA - English
N2 - Language is a vehicle of intangible heritage and transmits many social and cultural concepts from generation to generation. Half of the world s languages, including most of the Altaic languages, are now in danger of extinction. The loss of a language means the loss of cultural and intellectual diversity. This paper describes a linguistic project which aims to preserve the endangered Altaic languages. The ASK REAL (Altaic Society of Korea, Researches on Endangered Altaic Languages) team has gathered linguistic resources from thirty-eight Altaic languages and plans to build an extensive digital archive of all fifty-five of them. Through field research in minority language communities spread over a vast area of Eurasia, we acquired nearly three thousand lexical items of multimedia data, a few hundred grammatical constructions and another few hundred examples of daily conversation for each language. The data is converted into a standard digital format and managed in a database. A small part of the collection is currently available to the public via an easily accessible web interface with multilingual annotations for international users.
PY - 2012
SP - 113
EP - 122
T2 - International Journal of Intangible Heritage
TI - The Documentation of Endangered Altaic Languages and the Creation of a Digital Archive to safeguard linguistic diversity
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84877959944&partnerID=40&md5=9b0db0143c14d6478cec83e89d822093
VL - 7
SN - 19753586 (ISSN)
ER -