LINGUIST List 23.849 Mon Feb 20 2012 Disc: Social Media and Endangered Languages Editor for this issue: Elyssa Winzeler <elyssalinguistlist.org> New! Visit LL's Multitree project for over 1000 trees dynamically generated from scholarly hypotheses about language relationships:             http://multitree.linguistlist.org/ To post to LINGUIST, use our convenient web form at http://linguistlist.org/LL/posttolinguist.cfm. Directory         1.     Roger Blench , Social Media and Endangered Languages Message 1: Social Media and Endangered Languages Date: 18-Feb-2012 From: Roger Blench <rogerblenchyahoo.co.uk> Subject: Social Media and Endangered Languages E-mail this message to a friend I see from the BBC website http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17081573 that 'digital tools' [i.e. Facebook, Twitter etc.] are going to save 'Endangered Languages' according to 'scientists'. No scientists are mentioned in the accompanying piece and the only languages referred to are North American. My question is whether there is any evidence at all that genuinely endangered languages elsewhere in the world are likely be be even affected by such digital tools? My experience is that the reverse is true, that new media tend to promote dominant languages and scripts. Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation                             Sociolinguistics Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 20-Feb-2012       About LINGUIST    |   Contact Us       While the LINGUIST List makes every effort to ensure the linguistic relevance of sites listed on its pages, it cannot vouch for their contents.