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| zamenhof Diglot Newbie Israel zamenhof.co.il/engliRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5806 days ago 7 posts - 7 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* | Message 9 of 11 04 January 2009 at 12:27am | IP Logged | ||
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Any language is a serious life bonus..
Pick a language that you love and spread your information in Translation indexes All over the internet (its bound to help.).. You can easily find work internationally and make better money 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| cordelia0507 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5840 days ago 1473 posts - 2176 votes  Speaks: Swedish* Studies: German, Russian | Message 10 of 11 04 January 2009 at 4:42am | IP Logged | ||
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There is a very large Christian group which does this; they hire linguists (with strong Christian faith) who go to the most remote places and learn obscure languages.
While living with these indigenous people they translate the gospel message and the Bible if appropopriate and distribute it to all the speakers when it is finished (obviously a big translation job...) As a bi-product of the evangelisation work they also produce dictionaries etc, and share their information with academic institutions. This is probably more missionary work than a normal career. But it includes pretty much everything you say you are interested in... I've forgotten what this organisation is called, but I remember that it is based in the US. I came across it when reading a Christian magazine. Edited by cordelia0507 on 04 January 2009 at 5:43am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Brithans Bilingual Diglot Newbie Canada technocraticparty.ca Joined 4544 days ago 2 posts - 5 votes Speaks: French*, English* Studies: Spanish, Ojibwe | Message 11 of 11 20 June 2012 at 8:37pm | IP Logged | ||
It's actually SIL: The Summer Institute of Languages, which is unfortunate because they're the same group that manages the Ethnologue. I say it's unfortunate because their motivation is to spread the Gospel, not to preserve all of these beautiful languages (although they do a great job with the Ethnologue). I'm also fairly certain that these linguists who help write dictionaries and language acquisition tools for minority languages are largely funded by governments. For instance, the Government of Canada, dept of Native Affairs, and the ministry of Culture fund these activities for the languages of the First Nations. It would be in the best interests of other governments to do the same. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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