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Feb. 17, 2012
Digital Tools Help Document Vanishing Languages
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| Linguist David Harrison has travelled to remote corners of the world seeking the last speakers of endangered languages. Now, heâs using digital tools to to record and revitalize these dying languages. At the AAAS meeting this week, Harrison unveiled âtalking dictionariesâ for eight languages. |
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David Harrison
National Geographic Fellow
Associate Professor and Chair, Linguistics Department
Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, Pennsylvania
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