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Open Your Ears (And Write It All Down)

A rough-and-tumble guide to documenting a language.

This is the second article in the Language Nerd’s series on linguistics in Ethiopia. Intro here, part one here. So you’re a linguist, and you’ve decided to document a language. Maybe it’s a big language, with millions of speakers; maybe you’ve been invited to a tiny community where the speakers number in the dozens. Maybe you trekked five hours out to the field; maybe you took the subway. Either…

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Add to The Great Ironies the fact that while digital technology is being used to engage all the world in a global dialogue being carried out in bully languages that can be reduced to English and Mandarin, it also is providing means to help document, "preserve," and revitalize Endangered Languages. The on-line dictionaries mentioned here are one aspect -- watching the Garifuna community in NYC Skype the homeland in Honduras/Belize is another, and the very ability of DOCUMENTING spoken languages that will soon disappear so that they can be studied in the future are also crucial. Check out the Endangered Language Alliance to get involved. endangeredlanguagealliance.org

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