Language Museum Resources.avi

Alexander Arguelles describes the concept of a language museum, discusses the necessity of collecting and preserving recorded specimens of dying and endangered languages such that their features can be studied in the future and they can potentially be resurrected, gives information about a handful of endeavors to establish language museums worldwide, and provides a guided overview of online virtual museum resources.

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[inkstersco]

An educational application could be arranged in the way you described.

Basically, a virtual language museum. Why? Because what you describe is information based, in its essence (watching videos, listening to recordings etc). The statues, and so on, are ornamental.

[ProfASAr]

@inkstersco Have you visited the museums on my site? Is this educational application you mention something that could make visiting them more user friendly? Might there be some way to click directly on the language name and so cause the widget to play?

[Olekander]

It's lacking Catalan! Where is it :O! ?

[ProfASAr]

@Olekander Catalan is on the charts, in italics, as the legend explains: because people are likely to look for it, though an audio NT is not made by the main source. If anyone knows of an alternate source, please let me know and I will provide a link. By the way, I have just updated the lists for the first time in several months, and there are now 508 languages represented. If anyone provides sources for other Catalan (audio)books, I will put those on the "libraries" page.

[unnuaq]

Professor, may I ask whether you're still updating your site anymore? Particularly the biography section and of course the language museums? I've found the site both fascinating and informative so far!

[qzchris]

To anyone interested in matters regarding the preservation and extinction of languages, there is a fascinating documentary produced in the last year or so called "The Linguists" which follows several linguists trying to document and save several languages spoken in Siberia, India and Bolivia.

You can obtain it through the film's website: thelinguists (I can't post full URLs on YouTube).

[Olekander]

@ProfASAr Ok thanks for your explanation Dr Arguelles. Don't reply to the email then, I've got the info here! I look foward to finding a long continuous text in catalan.

[karlkid333]

I am fascinated by the diversity of the world and long for its retention for many years to come, despite globalization. Perhaps globalization will not be as all-encompassing as some forsee. In any case, I see it a worthy cause to gather as much knowledge as we can about all languages. I'm excited about the Maryland language museum.

[MediumSalterWorld019]

can you do a video on commas and how they are used in other languages and how they after translation, thank you

[snickersfan15]

Good & interesting video! :) Very educational. Thanks for the links, also! I didn't know you could actually listen to audio samples in so many languages!

[iliveunderatable]

The Icelandic "language museum" is part of the university and is not a museum as such, but it does promote the learning of languages.