http://www.deadlanguages.us.to/
I created this site as a catalog for all the dead, endangered, or soon to be endangered languages of the world. Right now I have only but a few PDFs assembled, but I’m working on trying to get a lot more resources from the web for each language listed. Tell me what you think.
Quite a compendium! You put this together? It’s very nice.
I must object though to Latin being present among these “dead” languages; Latin is a living language.
Thanks, and yes so far I’m the only contributer to this project. I’ve personally assembled every PDF for the Germanic languages from the images scanned from the Germanic Lexicon Project. Quite tedious work, though it seems there are some pre assembled PDFs I haven’t put on there I’ll also try to put on there in addition to Old Church Slavonic, Coptic, and Egyptian to fill up the currently relatively empty bookshelfs.
I must object though to Latin being present among these “dead” languages; Latin is a living language.
Here dead is moreso defined as a language which has lost all native speakers, as Ancient Greek and Gothic aren’t completely dead either when in terms of secondary speakers.
If you can find Ge’ez resources, you’ll be my hero.
Not that I really need or have time to learn Ge’ez right now, but Google Books has failed me here, though offering several good choices in the Syriac area.
I’ve made a note of it. If I find any resources you shall see. It seems it’s hard for many reasons. One of the most obvious is the disconnection Africa has from the internet.
If you can read French, you might wish to try this? Try searching for Ethiopic?
oooOOOooh! Excellent find. I had tried variations on “ethiopic/-ian” and so forth, but only in English.
We chinese have many dead languages…but unfortunately I couldn’t give you a hand for even I myself haven’t got a plenty of knowledge of them.
And studies in them are not so popular…I just regard it a shame.
A silly question here, how come is the abbreviation of the Dead Languages Resource Center DLRS, not DLRC?
I must have been thinking RS as resource or Centre as Sentre. Well, I’ll try and change it, but it won’t be the top of my priority list right now. I’ve got some other things I must deal with in scripting other sites.
I would think that Friesian is endangered. Very few know how to write it though it is still spoken quite a bit.
I know some places for Old Frisian. Frisian itself is less endangered than Navajo with 500, 000 speakers of the langauge worldwide. The only language on the database with more speakers is Sanskrit.
Sanskrit is spoken as a native language?