Download - Российский комитет Программы ЮНЕСКО ...

The ISO 639-3 standard is used in many applications that benefit minority
language use in cyberspace. One such use is by the WikiMedia Foundation.
New language editions of the Wikimedia projects are created based on the
language having an ISO 639-1, 639-2, or 639-3 code. SIL is working with the
WikiMedia Foundation to ensure that individual language communities can
benefit from this global resource.
Further information, including details on the change request process and
documentation of requests, is available at the official ISO 639-3 website at
http://www.sil.org/iso639-3/. For more information on Wikimedia sites,
please visit http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Meta:Language_proposal_policy.
Endangered Languages and Documentary Linguistics
A grave concern for many in the world is the large number of minority
languages that are endangered or at risk of extinction. SIL shares this concern
and is partnering with many organizations to determine ways to document
and share information about these languages before they become extinct, with
the prospect that these languages can be preserved. We believe that every
language has inherent value, and that speakers of minority languages and other
interested parties should have the tools and techniques available to protect
and enhance their cultural and linguistic heritage. In many cases around the
world, we have witnessed renewed language vitality as members of a language
community are equipped with the capacity to use their language in new and
different areas of life.
SIL continues to develop, and make freely available, various software
applications that facilitate language documentation and sharing. One example
is the FieldWorks suite of language tools. The FieldWorks Language Explorer
(FLEx) component provides a comprehensive application that supports
gathering texts in a language, analyzing the grammatical structure through
interlinear text analysis, and developing a comprehensive lexicon. FLEx
supports complex scripts and writing systems, and the user interface is localizable
into different languages. Currently, localized versions are available for the
following languages at different levels of completion: Chinese, English, French,
Hindi, Indonesian, Korean, Persian, Portuguese, Russian (81% complete),
Spanish and Turkish.
In addition, we are now working on solutions to publish dictionaries from
FLEx on the web for further collaboration and knowledge sharing. With the
advances in Unicode and web typography, complex scripts can now be utilized
on the web, thus enhancing the language situation for minority languages.
70