Vanishing Voices

[elvein1]

You should start teaching these languages through websites and published books, I'm only 14 but I am extremely interested in rare languages.

[9zreed]

@elvein1

unfortunately Cambridge is a self admitted corporation. The desire for money and funding is too great for them to do something like that for free and on their own.

[bajs47m16]

languages are doomed to die but the speakers wont

[CambridgeUniversity]

We are open to discussing partnerships or collaborations with like- minded organisations, institutions and foundations. Please contact us and become part of this exciting endeavour, Google: world oralliterature

[CambridgeUniversity]

We are urgently seeking additional funding to increase the number of endangered cultural traditions that we can help to document and protect, and time is running out. Donations will be directed to core activities: providing grants to fieldworkers, archiving and publishing recordings of oral literature, and organising training workshops for community researchers.

[CambridgeUniversity]

Thanks for your interest - there are many ways to get involved, including applying for one of our grants. This important work cannot continue without the financial support of individuals and institutions who believe that valuing and documenting linguistic and cultural diversity is a goal in itself.

[cdhelennh]

非常好！希望这个项目能帮到中国的一些少数民族。Well done! I would like to bridge your project to some ethnic groups in SW China. Thanks for the great video!

[mynameisevalai]

Great video. Can anyone be involved with the World Oral Literature Project?

[eyelookloop]

Dr Mark have a pure, perfect, and very strong British face.

[sultanalrasheedi]

no surprise, that is Cambridge... where the original research and the world's brightest and most productive people. by such an university we can survive, develop, and learn as human being. Thank you Dr Mark.

[AgoVita7]

in my opinion, a word is worth a thousand pictures

[AStaronYT]

what

[zdon25]

Another great video. Thanks Cambridge U.

[StephenWoods69]

It's great to see the work that Mark and others are doing to save endangered languages and cultures.

[S0chan]

Go ahead, extract some medical or any other useful knowledge from a forgotten or an endangered language. I'll wait.

[pixiemotion]

@S0chan the system of language in itself is useful. The fact that this system of relations between sounds/signs, grammatical rules or tendencies, and meanings developed through human interactions over generations, gives important knowledge about the range of capabilities of the human language faculty, and thus of the human mind. The study of linguistic universals, generalisations that regard all languages in the world, would be impossible without studying a wide range of languages

[burtwonk]

Great job, Dr. Turin. You're doing something incredible.

[TheLyther]

Nice video

[silentrocker]

Awesome work.