Digital Language Death

Of the approximately 7,000 languages spoken today, some 2,500 are generally considered endangered. Here we argue that this consensus figure vastly underestimates the danger of digital language death, in that less than 5% of all languages can still ascend to the digital realm. We present evidence of...

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Autor principal: Kornai, András
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Public Library of Science 2013
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3805564/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24167559
http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0077056
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description Of the approximately 7,000 languages spoken today, some 2,500 are generally considered endangered. Here we argue that this consensus figure vastly underestimates the danger of digital language death, in that less than 5% of all languages can still ascend to the digital realm. We present evidence of a massive die-off caused by the digital divide.
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spelling pubmed-38055642013-10-28 Digital Language Death Kornai, András PLoS One Research Article Of the approximately 7,000 languages spoken today, some 2,500 are generally considered endangered. Here we argue that this consensus figure vastly underestimates the danger of digital language death, in that less than 5% of all languages can still ascend to the digital realm. We present evidence of a massive die-off caused by the digital divide. Public Library of Science 2013-10-22 /pmc/articles/PMC3805564/ /pubmed/24167559 http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0077056 Text en © 2013 András Kornai http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are properly credited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3805564/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24167559
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