Languagesindanger.eu - Including Multimedia Language Resources to disseminate Knowledge and Create Educational Material on less-Resourced Languages
Dagmar Jung, Katarzyna Klessa, Zsuzsanna Duray, Beatrix Oszk'o, Mária Sipos, Sándor Szeverényi, Zsuzsa V'arnai, Paul Trilsbeek, Tamás Váradi · 2014
The present paper describes the development of the languagesindanger.euinteractive website as an example of including multimedia language resources to disseminate knowledge and create educational material on less-resourced languages.The website is a product of INNET (Innovative networking in infrastructure for endangered languages), European FP7 project.Its main functions can be summarized as related to the three following areas: (1) raising students' awareness of language endangerment and arouse their interest in linguistic diversity, language maintenance and language documentation; (2) informing both students and teachers about these topics and show ways how they can enlarge their knowledge further with a special emphasis on information about language archives; (3) helping teachers include these topics into their classes.The website has been localized into five language versions with the intention to be accessible to both scientific and non-scientific communities such as (primarily) secondary school teachers and students, beginning university students of linguistics, journalists, the interested public, and also members of speech communities who speak minority languages.