[Corpora-List] endangered languages must be transfered to electronic form

From: Yuri Tambovtsev (yutamb@mail.cis.ru)
Date: Sun Sep 12 2004 - 16:20:55 MET DST

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    Dear Corpora colleagues, The electronic Komi-Permian texts have been added to our language corpora. The endagered languages must be transfered into electronic form. What really kills me is that the funds which try to preserve the endagered languages, do not care to put them into electronic form and to make them available on some web site. They make linguists write grammars and pay money only for the grammars. After that grammar books (on paper) are buried in some library. I wrote to these funds for the endagered languages several times but never received any answer. What do you think, should the texts be put on some web site? It is a very strange policy of the funds for the endagered languages. They do not seem to bother about the modern electronic form. Now we have languages in the electronic form. Unfortunately, our project is not supported by any
    university, private or government fund. This is why, our
    project has only 158 languages for 34 years of our studies.Komi-Zyrian which is close to Komi-Permian also needs a more intensive investigation by a computer. Can you advise me where to get electronic texts in Komi-Zyrian?
    Looking forward to your comments to yutamb@hotmail.com Yours
    sincerely Yuri Tambovtsev

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