LINGUIST List 23.904 Wed Feb 22 2012 Disc: Re: 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.     Oliver Stegen , Re: Social Media and Endangered Languages Message 1: Re: Social Media and Endangered Languages Date: 21-Feb-2012 From: Oliver Stegen <oliver_stegensil.org> Subject: Re: Social Media and Endangered Languages E-mail this message to a friend Great discussion topic, Roger, thanks! While those endangered language communities which have no access to the internet will probably not benefit directly from digital tools, they can still benefit indirectly, e.g. through language documentation on YouTube. In these times when mobile phones have penetrated to rural areas, much more is possible for indigenous language use on the web. One digital tool showing this for many under-resourced languages (granted, not many of those are also endangered) is IndigenousTweets, cf. http://indigenoustweets.com/. A more individual success story may be the Rangi chat group on Facebook which has grown to over 300 members, quite a number of whom contribute via mobile from rural villages in Kondoa district, Northern Central Tanzania, cf. https://www.facebook.com/groups/TuluusikeKilaangi/. Usage of LWCs notwithstanding (which is impossible to disappear), the more online niches are created and advertised, the better for endangered language communities (in the opinion of yours truly). Linguistic Field(s): Language Documentation Sociolinguistics Read more issues|LINGUIST home page|Top of issue Page Updated: 22-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.