The search giant's philanthropic arm, Google.org, has launched the Endangered Language project, a website devoted to preserving those ancient tongues that are now only spoken by a few thousand of us.

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You can hire local specialists who may cost a little more but bring better knowledge, reliability and the English language to your project.

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He said the aim of the project is to eventually have Swahili language software operating on thousands of computers at grass roots levels, including primary schools and universities.

BBC: Word processing in Swahili

But could the ambitious project to alter language use now be causing serious social fissures?

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Before this project, the language of the Yukagir was spoken fluently by only seventeen people.

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Manx language officer Adrian Caine said the project has taken several years to complete and will provide a "fantastic teaching resource".

BBC: Friends and Heroes

Last December, the video of a college-level sign language project went viral on YouTube.

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The two arts organisations have developed the Boxing Beats project as an attempt to unite the Welsh love of playing sport with a love for the language and music of sport.

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But on the 150th anniversary of the holiday, Hayes-Bautista is announcing that he happened upon the true origins of Cinco de Mayo -- the 5th of May -- after poring over Spanish-language newspapers in California from the mid-1800s while working on another research project.

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Ciak Junior is an international TV project which aims at initiating children, aged 10 to 15, to the language of audiovisuals.

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He calls this motif "Actual Life, " modeled after a project he started with his wife to represent how people actually talk versus the canned phrases in language textbooks.

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In fact, an e-mail from Republican Appropriations Committee staff that circulated on the Hill earlier this month called for requests for "programmatic funding, project funding, bill or report language" to be submitted to senators by April 13 for inclusion in the fiscal year 2008 budget.

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Unlike IBM's Deep Blue chess project in the 90s, which was pretty much pure math, Watson has to deal with the natural language and punny nature of real Jeopardy questions.

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