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Google has set out to save the world’s dying languages.

In an alliance with scholars and linguists, the internet powerhouse introduced an Endangered Languages Project website where people can find, share, and store information about dialects in danger of disappearing.

The Endangered Languages Project, is an online resource to record, access, and share samples of and research on endangered languages, as well as to share advice and best practices for those working to document or strengthen languages under threat.

“People can share their knowledge and research directly through the site and help keep the content up-todate ,” project managers Clara Rivera Rodriguez and Jason Rissman said.

“A diverse group of collaborators have already begun to contribute content ranging from 18th-century manuscripts to modern teaching tools like video and audio language samples and knowledge-sharing articles.”

The website at endangeredlanguages.com is designed to let users upload video, audio , or text files and encourages them to memorialize recordings of rare dialects.

Only half of the approximately 7,000 languages spoken today are expected to survive past the end of this century, according to an Endangered Languages video posted at Google-owned videosharing venue YouTube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bn2QbwcjmOI&feature=player_embedded

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