The Endangered Languages Project, a website developed by Google and backed by the Alliance for Linguistic Diversity, was recently launched at www.endangeredlanguages.com.
A central feature of the website is the Catalogue of Endangered Languages compiled by linguists at the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa and the LINGUIST List at Eastern Michigan University.
“The world’s languages are in crisis, but there is no comprehensive, up-to-date source of information on the endangered languages of the world,” said Lyle Campbell, director of the UH Mānoa Catalogue of Endangered Languages project and a professor of linguistics in the College of Languages, Linguistics and Literature. “So the Catalogue is needed to support documentation and revitalization of endangered languages, to inform the public and scholars, to aid members of groups whose languages are in peril and to call attention to the languages most critically in need of conservation.”
Read the UH Mānoa news release or media coverage of the project in Hawaii News Now, Honolulu Star-Advertiser (subscription required), KHON, KITV, Radio Australia, and TIME.
Other UH news coverage this week includes the university’s participation in the Smithsonian Folklife Festival in Washington, D.C., UH faculty experts quoted on the sale of Lānaʻi, a campaign at UH Mānoa to encourage the use of more sustainable modes of transportation, and more.
Smithsonian Folklife Festival coverage
- KITV, June 27, 2012: “Will taxpayers be paying for UH trip?”
- Inside Higher Ed, June 27, 2012: “At birthday celebration, land-grant colleges get advice about their future”
- Ka Leo, June 27, 2012: “UH taro patch will be showcased in Smithsonian Festival”
- KHON, June 27, 2012: “UH promotes food sustainability in DC”
- KPUA, June 27, 2012: “Hawaiʻi CC hālau to perform at Smithsonian Festival”
- Big Island Now, June 26, 2012: “HCC taking hula to Smithsonian Festival”
- Hawaii Reporter, June 26, 2012: “University of Hawaiʻi sends 80 people to ‘once in a lifetime opportunity’ at Smithsonian’s 2012 Folklife Festival, but total costs not tallied”
- Honolulu Civil Beat, June 26, 2012: “Hula dancers bring Hawaiʻi to D.C.”
- Washington Post, June 23, 2012: “Hula dancers bring Hawaiʻi to D.C. for Smithsonian Folklife Festival”
More UH in the News for June 22–June 28, 2012
- Hawaii Tribune-Herald, June 27, 2012: “Students earn scholarships”
- Honolulu Weekly, June 27, 2012: “Buried Truth”
- Maui Time, June 27, 2012: “University of Hawaiʻi partners with Mapua Institute in the Philippines”
- Pacific Business News, June 27, 2012: “Hawaiʻi likely won’t collect conveyance tax from Lānaʻi sale”
- San Francisco Chronicle, June 27, 2012: “So just what did Ellison buy in Hawaiian island?”
- Honolulu Star-Advertiser, June 26, 2012: “Walk, bike, car pool” (subscription required)
- MSNBC, June 26, 2012: “They’ll be cooking up a Mars menu that’s out of this world”
- Space.com, June 26, 2012: “Mock Mars ‘astronauts’ to help cook up a mission menu”
- Big Island Now, June 25, 2012: “UHH breaks ground for new student housing”
- KITV, June 25, 2012: “State officials find ways to fight obesity”
- Honolulu Star-Advertiser, June 24, 2012: “The new telescope infrared detector captures ‘incredible’ detail” (subscription required)
- Big Island Video News, June 23, 2012: “UH Hilo breaks ground on University Village Phase I”
- Hawaii News Now, June 23, 2012: “Title IX marks 40th anniversary”
- Associated Press, June 22, 2012: “Purchasing Hawaiian isle fits with mogul’s persona”
- Astronomy Magazine, June 22, 2012: “New infrared sensor to revolutionize infrared astronomical imaging”
- The Garden Island, June 22, 2012: “Solstice celebration ‘awakens’ Chamber members”
