How Do You Save a Dying Language? Crowdsource It!

In an earlier post I shared my concern about dying languages. Every year, around 26 languages become extinct and it's estimated that up the 50% the languages now spoken on the Earth will be gone by 2100.
Althought there are many groups dedicated to stopping this trend, one of the most interesting ideas circulating is the notion of crowdsourcing the task.

Biagio Arobba , a 32-year-old South Dakotan, has launched LiveAndTell, a user-generated content site for documenting and learning rare languages. Arobba is especially in preserving Native American tongues. The site has an accompanying Facebook page to facitate crowdsourcing endangered languages by speaking another that the next generation already knows: the language of the Internet.