The event, dubbed Mozilla Translathon 2012, was organized to provide translations for Firefox, Google's Endangered Languages Project, the WikiMedia software that powers Wikipedia and 500 crowdsourced articles, to boot.

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Librarians in Australia have launched a three-year project to rediscover lost indigenous languages.

BBC: Australian project hunts lost indigenous languages

Dr. Gell-Mann, a Nobel Prize-winning physicist with a keen interest in historical linguistics, is co-founder of a project known as Evolution of Human Languages.

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He said the university's Multilingual Manchester project had documented "at least 153 languages" in the city.

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The Multilingual Manchester project was set up by the university in 2010 to document, protect and support the languages spoken in the city.

BBC: Census data on languages in Manchester is 'way out'

James Gosling, the Sun Microsystems engineer who devised Java, has a project called "Jackpot, " aimed at creating a common translator for the many software languages now in use.

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The project consists of assembling and readapting a package of high quality free open source software in three languages (Arabic, French and English) and disseminating it in Arab countries on USB keys.

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