More than 6000 languages in the world face a crucial risk of extinction. They have fewer than 100.000 speakers. Some of them have even been subject to linguicide (language killing) as it has been a common trait throughout history that indigenous people have been forced to use a majority language instead of their own.
Today awareness of this problem is changing and authorities try to act in their support. Two examples are the Maori language of New Zealand and the Inuktitut language of the Nunavut region in Northern Canada.
Less than 4% of New Zealanders speak Maori and no one does not also speak English. Hence, it is of utmost importance that measures are taken to revitalize the language. One of those measures is to use the terminology management software TermWeb to simplify proper use of the right Maori terms in all kinds of communication.
At the other end of the world only about 35.000 Inuits claim Inuktitut as their mother tongue. Still, it is one of the official languages of Nunavut, the largest and northernmost territory of Canada. And again, the authorities have chosen to use TermWeb in their efforts to better manage the terminology of this rare language.
Interverbum Technology makes language and terminology management more efficient for global organizations. Our terminology management system, TermWeb, is the first terminology tool to evolve into a platform for developing and managing knowledge-bases. With features such as a multi-level subject-field hierarchy, an unmatched array of concept relations, real-time multi-dimensional concept diagrams and the support of multimedia files, it is the only tool of its kind that can truly call itself a knowledge management system.
