01939nas a2200253   4500000000100000008004100001653002100042653002800063653001800091653002500109653002500134653002000159653001300179653001100192100001600203700001600219700001400235245012500249856011800374300001200492490000600504520115500510022002001665                                       d10aAltaic languages10aDocumentary linguistics10adocumentation10aEndangered languages10aLinguistic diversity10aManchu-tungusic10aMongolic10aTurkic1 aChoi Woonho1 aYou Hyun-Jo1 aKim Juwon00aThe Documentation of Endangered Altaic Languages and the Creation of a Digital Archive to safeguard linguistic diversity  uhttps://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-84877959944&partnerID=40&md5=9b0db0143c14d6478cec83e89d822093  a113-1220 v73 aLanguage 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.  a19753586 (ISSN)