Preservation of endangered languages
The above standard model of conceptual AI may serve as a solution to the
problem of preserving a
dying language -- one spoken by fewer than
40,000 human beings. If preservationists such as the
Endangered Language Alliance embed the grammar and
vocabulary of a dying language
in a living Mind coded in
JavaScript or
Perl or some other programming language, the human beings who
speak or teach the language will have a powerful resource for
enabling their endangered language to live long and prosper.
A JavaScript version such as in the dead language
Latin serves as a tutorial for a more serious version in
Perl or Python or Lisp or whatever. The JavaScript version
may include clickable links to additional resources such as
an on-line dictionary of the endangered language; or the literature of the language;
or any organization working to preserve the language. Other versions such as in
Perl may actually be bilingual or multilingual, thinking in both the
endangered language and in some other human language so that
machine translation becomes an option.
