The Endangered Languages Project, home of LINGUIST List and University of Hawai’i’s Catalogue of Endangered Languages (ELCat) project, has been getting far more press than we here at LINGUIST are accustomed to.  We’re very excited at the prospect of so much attention to the issue of language endangerment, and are hoping it will raise public awareness and involvement in documentation and preservation efforts.  Below, in no particular order, are some of the articles we’ve run across in media outlets around the world.  If you find an article on the project that we’ve missed, feel free to leave a comment!

U.S.-based Newspapers and Media Outlets:

• CNN: “Google fights to save 3,054 dying languages”
• LA Times: “Google.org helps keep endangered languages alive”
• Washington Post: “Google fights for endangered languages”
• Marketplace (NPR): “Google chips in to preserve endangered languages”
• Time Magazine: “Google Joins Fight to Save Nearly 3,000 Endangered Languages”
• MSNBC: “Google backs online project to preserve endangered languages”
• CBS News: “Google launches Endangered Languages Project”
• Fox News: “New Google project helps preserve dying languages”
• The Atlantic: “The Disappearing Languages of Asia”

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• Urban Oahu: “UH Manoa Teams helps Google with Research for Endangered Languages Project”
• Detroit Free Press: “EMU, University of Hawaii, Google team up on website to save endangered languages”
• NY Daily News: “Keeping the Tower of Babel from falling: Google launches Endangered Languages Project”
• Huffington Post: “Google Endangered Languages Project Seeks To Save Forgotten Tongues”
• GOOD: “Google Wants to Protect 3,000 Endangered Languages”
• The Week: “Google’s next mission: Save dying languages”
• Alaska Dispatch: “UAF teams with Google on new endangered languages website”
• PC World: “Google Project Aims to Document Endangered Languages”
• Fast Company: “Google-backed Endangered Language Project Helps Preserve Dwindling Dialects”
• Computer World: “Google project aims to document endangered languages”
• NASDAQ: “Google Launches Endangered Language Project”
• Honolulu Star Advertiser: “UH assists in compiling list of endangered languages”
• KTOO News Alaska: “UAF partners with Google to preserve Alaska Native languages”
• Juneau Empire: “UAF joins Endangered Languages Project”
• The Eastern Echo (EMU): “Linguists join forces with Google to create a website to share research”
• The Daily Pennsylvanian: “Penn and Google preserve endangered languages”
• Miami University News: “Myaamia Project part of Google’s Endangered Languages Project”

International News Outlets:

• The Economist: “Google to the Rescue?”
• The Telegraph (UK): “Google ‘to save endangered languages'”
• CBC: “New Google site aims to save endangered languages”
• The Journal (Ireland): “Gaeilge on Google’s new Endangered Languages Project”
• Bild (Germany): “Wie Google unsere Sprache(n) rettet”
• Vancouver Sun: “Dying languages win new lease on life with Google website”
• Radio Free Europe: “Google Project Aims To Preserve Dying Languages”
• Perú21: “Idiomas en Perú en riesgo de extinción”
•  Tangata Whenua (New Zealand): “Indigenous Language Institute Collaborates with Google on the Endangered Languages Project”
• 24heures (Switzerland): “Google veut préserver les langues anciennes”
• Global Post: “Google-sponsored project aims to document dying languages”
• Daily Guide (Ghana): “Google fights to save 3,054 dying languages”
• International Business Times: “Google Launches Endangered Languages Project To Preserve Global Speech, Culture”
• The Times of India: “Google launches project to save endangered languages”; “How to save a dying language”
• Daily Cross (Ukraine): “Google представил проект по спасению вымирающих языков”
• Times Colonist (Canada): “Island takes centre stage in battle to save languages”
• Dawn (Pakistan): “Google sets out to save dying languages”
• Wired (UK): “Google platform aims to preserve 3,000 endangered languages”
• The Globe and Mail (Canada): “Google cataloging endangered languages”
• Korrespondent (Russia): “Google создал проект по спасению умирающих языков” 
• RT: “Google launches Endangered Languages Project”
• Slate France: “Google veut sauver les langues en voie de disparition”
• Le Figaro (France): “Google: préserver les langues en danger”
• National Post (Canada): “Google sets out to save the dying languages of the world”
• Vousnousils (France): “Google veut sauver les langues en danger”
• The New Age (South Africa): “Google sets out to save dying languages”
• Philippine Star: “3,000 languages today will disappear by 2100”
• Yahoo! News Singapore: “Google sets out to save dying languages
• NEWS.com.au: “Google out to save dying languages”
• Hamilton Spectator (Canada): “Project would save endangered languages”
• ABC Radio Australia: “Web initiative speaks up for lagging languages”
• Hindustan Times: “Google launches Endangered Languages Project”
• The Indian Express: “Deliverable secrets: Will Google’s ‘Endangered Languages Project’ hold off the inevitable?”
• New Europe: “Google to save 3,054 endangered languages”
• TechnoLibya: “Help Libya’s Endangered Languages”
• The Epoch Times: “Native Group Helps Google Preserve Endangered Languages”
• Ynet News (Israel): “Google wants to save endangered languages”
• FirstPost (India): “Mission impossible: Google’s Endangered Language Project”
• Universia (Colombia): “Google presenta proyecto para la conservación de las lenguas en peligro de extinción”
• The National (Abu Dhabi): “Project tries to save India’s linguistic treasures”
• Der Standard (Austria): “Neues Google-Projekt soll Sprachen vor dem Aussterben bewahren”
• Al Arabiya News: “Google to the rescue: New project to preserve over 3,000 endangered languages”

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