Living Tongues Institute

dedicated to documenting endangered languages and empowering language activists around the world

<p>Minority languages are being increasingly replaced by various politically, economically, or socio-culturally dominant ones. Every two weeks the last fluent speaker of a language passes on and with him/her goes literally hundreds of generations of traditional knowledge encoded in these ancestral tongues. Nearly half of the world’s languages are likely to vanish in the next 100 years. <br> <br> The mission of the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages is to promote the documentation, maintenance, preservation, and revitalization of endangered languages worldwide through linguist-aided, community-driven multi-media language documentation projects.</p> <h3>Specialties</h3> <p> indigenous languages, talking dictionaries for highly endangered languages, language documentation, revitalization efforts, language technology kits, raising awareness about Language Hotspots, promoting multilingualism, supporting language activists to document their own languages<br></p>

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