{"id":504,"date":"2007-10-03T08:11:07","date_gmt":"2007-10-03T07:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/03\/house_of_languages\/"},"modified":"2007-10-03T08:11:07","modified_gmt":"2007-10-03T07:11:07","slug":"house_of_languages","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=504","title":{"rendered":"House of Languages"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"285\" border=\"0\" align=\"right\" alt=\"House of Languages\" src=\"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/images\/blog\/linguamon.gif\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eurolang.net\/index.php?option=com_content&#038;task=view&#038;id=2959&#038;Itemid=1&#038;lang=en\">Eurolang<\/a>, the Catalan government (<em>Generalitat de Catalunya<\/em>) is planning to provide over half a million euros to fund the setting up of <em>Linguam\u00f3n &#8211; Casa de les Lleng\u00fces<\/em> (House of Languages), a museum dedicated to the world&#8217;s linguistic diversity in Barcelona. The museum will use multimedia systems to allow for high levels of interaction with actual or virtual visitors, and will also have an auditorium, a documentation centre, a specialised library and an area for academic research. It is hoped that the museum will become a &#8220;worldwide centre of excellence and innovation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>There is already a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.linguamon.cat\/\">website<\/a> for the project, which contains information in quite a few different languages, including <a href=\"http:\/\/www10.gencat.net\/casa_llengues\/AppJava\/ca\/index.jsp\">Catalan<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www10.gencat.net\/casa_llengues\/AppJava\/ar\/index.jsp\">Arabic<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www10.gencat.net\/casa_llengues\/AppJava\/cy\/index.jsp\">Welsh<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www10.gencat.net\/casa_llengues\/AppJava\/hi\/index.jsp\">Hindi<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www10.gencat.net\/casa_llengues\/AppJava\/tmh\/index.jsp\">Tamazight<\/a> and even <a href=\"http:\/\/www10.gencat.net\/casa_llengues\/AppJava\/lsc\/index.jsp\">Catalan Sign Language<\/a> (<em>Llengua de signes catalana<\/em>). The sign language version has text in Catalan and videos of the sign language. This is the first sign language version of a website I&#8217;ve seen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Eurolang, the Catalan government (Generalitat de Catalunya) is planning to provide over half a million euros to fund the setting up of Linguam\u00f3n &#8211; Casa de les Lleng\u00fces (House of Languages), a museum dedicated to the world&#8217;s linguistic diversity in Barcelona. The museum will use multimedia systems to allow for high levels of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/504\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}