The project also works to prevent languages from dying out by identifying the most threatened areas where languages are disappearing.

VOA: special.2009.12.02

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.

ENGADGET: Google, Mozilla and Wikimedia projects get Maya language translations at one-day 'translathon'

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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