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Hi folks working on un(der)documented languages - Language Documentation and Description is trialing a new article type: Language Snapshots are 1500 words providing the basic information on a language! Why, you ask? (thread! 1/)
For SO MANY languages this information doesn't exist in an easy-access public location. There is so much information about the world's languages locked away in never-read grant applications. Language Snapshots provides a streamlined process to get this information out there 2/
When something is published, then it can be included in (e.g.) Wikipedia, Glottolog and other atlas/survey style publications. It also means you don't have to write the same details a dozen times in a dozen articles. 3/
