@article{1892,
  keywords = {Endangered languages, documentation, Linguistic diversity, Altaic languages, Documentary linguistics, Manchu-tungusic, Mongolic, Turkic},
  author = {Choi Woonho and You Hyun-Jo and Kim Juwon},
  title = {The Documentation of Endangered Altaic Languages and the Creation of a Digital Archive to safeguard linguistic diversity},
  abstract = {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.},
  year = {2012},
  journal = {International Journal of Intangible Heritage},
  volume = {7},
  pages = {113-122},
  issn = {19753586 (ISSN)},
  url = {https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84877959944&partnerID=40&md5=9b0db0143c14d6478cec83e89d822093},
  language = {English},
}