Languagesindanger.eu - Including Multimedia Language Resources to disseminate Knowledge and Create Educational Material on less-Resourced Languages
Dagmar Jung, Katarzyna Klessa, Zsuzsa Duray, Beatrix Oszk{\'o}, M{\'a}ria Sipos, S{\'a}ndor Szever{\'e}nyi, Zsuzsa V{\'a}rnai, Paul Trilsbeek, Tam{\'a}s V{\'a}radi
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The present paper describes the development of the languagesindanger.eu interactive website as an example of including multimedia language resources to\^A disseminate knowledge and create educational material on\^A less-resourced languages. The website is a product of INNET (Innovative networking in infrastructure for endangered languages), European FP7 project. Its main functions can be summarized as related to the three following areas: (1) raising students' awareness of language endangerment and arouse their interest in linguistic diversity, language maintenance and language documentation; (2) informing both students and teachers about these topics and show ways how they can enlarge their knowledge further with a special emphasis on information about language archives; (3) helping teachers include these topics into their classes. The website has been localized into five language versions with the intention to be accessible to both scientific and non-scientific communities such as (primarily) secondary school teachers and students, beginning university students of linguistics, journalists, the interested public, and also members of speech communities who speak minority languages.