Multigram (http://MultiGram.ulb.ac.be) is a multilingual platform based on the comparison between French and other European languages. The structure of the platform could be useful to add other languages in order to make them known to the rest of the world.
Interesting idea.
I just wonder -
why would such a platform be used to 'preserve' language if it's actually a comparison website?
Still an interesting platform - I'm just not sure how this would serve as a preservation platform. Preservation of a language would usually involve teaching it to the next generation of users. Also, the person using the platform would first of all need to be able to speak French for it to be useful to them. :)
Thank-you for your answer. I thought using the plateform like a model, not like it is now. It means that an endangered language would be in contrast with English, or French or Spanish... It depends on the language. For example Canadian endangered languages would be in contrast with English and French.
Ah, Ok.
Yes, currently that site needs a bit of work ;)
Sounds like an interesting idea.
But again, is there any way to record the endangered language? All good to have semantic and lexical comparison, but without pronunciation, if all speakers of a language passed on, nobody would know how to pronounce what you're recording :)
(just a few thoughts....)
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