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WikiProject Endangered Languages

and Language Revitalization
Endangered Languages around the world:
Africa • Asia • Europe • South America • Central America • North America • Oceania

19:39 UTC, Friday, 15 November

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It has been estimated that somewhere in the world one language will die every two weeks.^[1]
there is a consensus among linguists that over half the of the world's languages are moribund^[2]

^ Krauss, M. (1992). The world’s languages in crisis. Language 68, 4-10.
^ Iatiku: Newsletter of the Foundation for Endangered Languages. Issue Two: 9 April 1996. Accessed on 2006-11-15

Resources

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Project Scope & Goals

Adding to the store of encyclopedic knowledge available on Wikipedia regarding endangered languages and language revitalization. The means of doing so are:
1. To create, expand, and maintain articles related to endangered languages:
2. identify gaps, check for completeness of coverage, start new articles, expand entries on little-known or neglected, but still notable, subjects
3. ensure consistency of information across articles.
To serve as the centralized place for all discussions related to endangered languages in Wikipedia.
To create standards, guidelines, and recommendations for how to better organize and structure articles related to language endangerment, language revitalization and endangered languages.
To provide editors with resources to assist them with their edits.

Endangered language article assessment

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Tag article talk pages with {{WikiProject Endangered languages | class = | importance = }}

Endangered language article assessment page

Watchlist

Add links and references

Adding links and citations from Resource Network for Linguistic Diversity and Foundation for Endangered Languages newsfeeds to articles

Collaborations

Endangered languages

Misantla Totonac see scholar.google.com

Lenca language see scholar.google.com

Wikipedia:WikiProject Native languages of California

Incubator Wikis in Languages Near Extinction

Challenges Encountered on Wikimedia Projects in Endangered Languages, Wikimania 2011 (slides, .pdf) or video

Language revitalization

Kohanga reo

Punana leo

Rama language

Improving articles

Category:Leonese language

Templates

For talk pages: Copy and paste to talk page:

{{WikiProject Endangered languages | class = | importance = }}

Displays: {{WikiProject Endangered Languages}}

Userbox: {{User Wp ENLANG}}

[krauss-1] Krauss, M. (1992). The world’s languages in crisis. Language 68, 4-10.

[found-2] Iatiku: Newsletter of the Foundation for Endangered Languages. Issue Two: 9 April 1996. Accessed on 2006-11-15

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