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Cliff Abbott (University of Wisconsin-Green Bay)

ONEIDA LANGUAGE PROJECT

Uploaded on Aug 22, 2008 by UWGBnews

UW-Green Bay Prof. Cliff Abbott and Maria Hinton, an Oneida elder, are working together to preserve the disappearing Oneida language. Hinton, a native Oneida speaker, is pronouncing all of the words in the Oneida dictionary. Abbott is putting her voice into an online Oneida dictionary so people can read the word and hear the correct pronunciation.

PROJECT AIMS TO CATALOGUE ENDANGERED LANGUAGES

Uploaded on Jun 23, 2008 by VOAvideo

While there are nearly 7,000 languages, only 83 are used by a majority of the world's population. Researchers say many of the rest are in danger of disappearing, warning that perhaps half the world's native languages will no longer exist by the end of the century. David Harrison with the Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages says language extinction is a crisis of unprecedented proportions and he is trying to do something about it.