Vanishing Languages and Cultural Heritage

This channel belongs to the Commission of Vanishing Languages and Cultural Heritage (VLACH) at the Austrian Academy of Sciences (ÖAW). 
By investigating and documenting selected endangered languages and varieties, the Commission Vanishing Languages and Cultural Heritage (VLACH) aims to contribute to the academic knowledge of the diversity of linguistic heritage. In principle, the Commission is concerned with the global phenomena of language loss and is therefore potentially interested in all endangered varieties. It attempts to develop strategies of language preservation and is committed to multilingualism as well as to the nurturing of cultural heritage. In terms of its contents, the Commission examines subject areas such as inter- and inner-linguistic variation, language shift, language transfer and all phenomena concerning disappearing or endangered linguistic varieties, cultures and identities.