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"There are more than 7,000 languages in the world, and their grammar can vary a
lot. Linguists are interested in these differences because of what they tell us
about our history, our cognitive abilities and what it means to be human.
But this great diversity is threatened as more and more languages aren’t taught
to children and fall into slumber.
In a new paper published in
Science Advances, we’ve launched an extensive
database of language grammars called Grambank. With this resource, we can
answer many research questions about language and see how much grammatical
diversity we may lose if the crisis isn’t stopped.
Our findings are alarming: we’re losing languages, we’re losing language
diversity, and unless we do something, these windows into our collective
history will close."
Cheers,
*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
http://xanadu.com.au/ Chief Scientist, Xanadu
https://glasswings.com.au/ Partner, Glass Wings
https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
