One language dies every two weeks, according to Dr Mark Turin of the World Oral Literature Project. The Project is a global initiative to document and disseminate endangered oral literature before it disappears. Dr Turin was speaking on ABC Radio National's Future Tense program. WOLP has made a strong commitment to enable the long-term preservation of oral traditions, through the establishment of a digital repository in collaboration with The University of Cambridge and Yale University.

The program discussed three sites on which resources and recordings are stored and accessible:

• WOLP library - describes physical and online collections with open or closed access
• DSpace@Cambridge - while this is Cambridge's institutional repository, WOLP acts as a conduit for the collection
• Endangered Language Archive - a digital repository for documentation and descriptions of endangered languages.

You can search the languages this repository has preserved by using the interactive map.