At noon on April 19th, went live. With over 400,000 data points & 2400 languages, it is the largest comparative grammatical database available. Dr. Hannah Haynie, assistant professor in the Department of Linguistics at 鶹ѰBoulder,is a team leader on the initiative and first author of aarticle describing the resource (with over 100 co-authors). "Right now we're at a critical state, in terms of language endangerment,” saysDr. Haynie.“Grambank is showing us the importance of working on language documentation and revitalization in order to preserve this legacy of human communication, culture and cognition.”
To learn more about the scope of Grambank and Dr. Haynie's work on the project, check out this recent feature in 鶹ѰBoulder Today.