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Bangladesh: the documentation of minority languages

19.02.2009

Belonging to the Sino-Tibetan family, the minority languages of Bangladesh are a faction of a larger belt that has broken off from the main family and runs through Burma, India and Bangladesh where they exist in isolation as the minority. In Bangladesh the languages are some of the most neglected and under-documented and hence endangered languages of the world.Here I wou...

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Spricht der Computer unsere Sprache?

19.02.2009

Die Computerlinguistin Verena Lyding arbeitet am EURAC-Institut für Fachkommunikation und Mehrsprachigkeit. Im November des vergangenen Jahres hat sie die Tagung "Lesser Used Languages and Computer Linguistics II" an der EURAC organisiert. Im Interview spricht sie über die Rolle der Computerlinguistik und wie Minderheitensprachen geförd...

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Parole animate
28.01.2009
Intenta a caricare la lavatrice con ai piedi un solo calzino, Sarah spiega che il termine serendipity indica la capacità di fare per caso scoperte fortunate e, proprio mentre lo dice, trova nel fustino del detersivo il calzino smarrito. Abbiamo appena consultato il primo video-vocabolario della lingua inglese. Forse non molto ortodosso, ma sicuramente efficace. Quello di Sarah è uno degli oltre 120mila video scaricabili da wordia.com, una banca dati di filmati ...

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The learners' languages
28.01.2009
Corpus linguistics is now a well-established discipline within the general framework of linguistic studies. Its findings contribute to a number of branches of learning, from general language studies to lexicography, collecting a large amount of empirical data to shed light on the various aspects of language varieties. Moreover in the last fifteen years corpus linguistic has been enriched with a particular type of data collection dealing with the language of a particular type of...

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The African varieties of Portoguese
14.01.2009
Portuguese is the official language of 5 African countries: Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, S. Tome and Principe, Angola and Mozambique, although it is mainly spoken as a second language.In Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau and S. Tome and Principe, Creole languages emerged and are widely used, accounting for the fact that Portuguese is spoken by a minority, while in Angola and Mozambique, where there is a large diversity of Bantu languages and no Creole, Portugues...

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