Curated theme: Ensuring the sustainability of language documentation
Unfinished. Sustainable practices in language documentation
Sustainability in linguistics
Language documentation, for what purposes?
For language revitalization, to benefit community
For data collection, for linguistics/to capture linguistic diversity
Education? Sustainable Development Goal 4
Traditional knowledge
What is being documented? Language documentation means also documenting the traditional knowledge, cannot be separated.
The natural ecology of language
Goal 15. Protect, restore and promote sustainable use of terrestrial ecosystems, sustainably manage forests, combat desertification, and halt and reverse land degradation and halt biodiversity loss Life on land - both ways
Fieldwork ethics
Important practices/guidelines to be considered:
Archiving and data access ....
Publishing ..... erit
Collaborative approach
An important part of the fieldwork ethics.
Collaboration with the community, ehd.
Approaches to Language Endangerement
and also collaboration with different institutions, local organizations, learning from other projects and each other..
