Using AI to turn the Global Language Archive into the "Louvre of Languages"

In 2012, I proposed the idea of creating a Global Language Archive. This was roughly the same time that the Endangered Languages Project was getting kicked off, which I'll discuss in more detail below. But I always viewed a Global Language Archive as being much more than an online effort. The world is losing languages at a rapid clip. Over 500 languages have less than 10 people still speaking them and many of these native speakers are losing the will to struggle forward to keep them viable.