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Dying Languages

Using Big Data To Save A Language

Nataly Kelly | Posted 04.11.2013 | TED Weekends
Read More: Lost Languages, Native American Languages, Language, Big Data, Dead Languages, Big Data Can Get Very Personal, Dying Languages, Information Technology, Technology, Language Loss, TED Weekends News
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2013-01-18-TEDplayvideoWith a large enough dataset, all a language really needs is a community of motivated users in order to stay alive -- or even to come back from the dead.

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Colorado Congress Of Foreign Teachers Awards Innovation Grant To Boulder Waldorf Teacher

Posted 05.25.2011 | Denver
Read More: Rudolf Steiner, Denver Impact, Shining Mountain Waldorf School, Foreign Language, Waldorf School, Dying Languages, Boulder, German, Denver North High School, Paula Blum, Boulder Waldorf School, Chinese, Fairview High School, German Language, Foreign Language Teachers, Denver News

The dearth of emphasis on foreign languages in American schools is no secret. The American education system's seeming lack of interest in teaching se...

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New World Atlas Shows Endangered Languages

AP | DHEEPTHI NAMASIVAYAM | Posted 05.25.2011 | World
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PARIS — Only one native speaker of Livonian remains on Earth, in Latvia. The Alaskan language Eyak went extinct last year when its last survivin...

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