Google ‘to save endangered languages’

Google has launched a new website in a bid to save endangered languages from disappearing forever.

Called ‘The Endangered Languages Project’, the search giants hopes by using technology to encourage collaboration between people familiar with the languages at risk and providing a comprehensive database, it will help preserve these historical words.

Today we’re introducing something we hope will help [preserve languages on the brink of disappearing]: the Endangered Languages Project, a website for people to find and share the most up-to-date and comprehensive information about endangered languages, wrote Clara Rivera Rodriguez and Jason Rissman, project managers of Google’s Endangers Languages Project, on the company blog — via The Telegraph