In a post on the Official Google Blog, Google today outlined the work it has done on a new initiative called the “Endangered Languages Project.” In partnership with the Alliance for Linguistic ...

Google has launched The Endangered Languages Project in a bid to save historic languages from disappearing. The website encourages people familiar with said languages to collaborate with one another ...

Some 3,000 languages around the world are in danger of extinction. Many of them are seldom or never online, hastening their decline. But new courses and tools are coming to the rescue and may help ...

What are the Jewish languages? Some are well known — Hebrew is the language of the Torah and of Israel, and Yiddish was the language of the shtetls and the great centers of European Jewish culture.

While the world loses a language every 40 days, translation efforts bring new life to threatened tongues. Bible translators have made it a priority to give people around the world the chance to study ...

Google takes a lot of flack, usually rightly so for privacy violations. But a project like this buys them a lot of good will. Language death is natural, but with the increase of globalization and the ...

Whenever a speaker of a Jewish language dies, we lose an opportunity to learn and teach more about the nuances of this rich language and culture. Flory Jagoda devoted much of her life to preserving ...