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 * http://languagesindanger.eu/book-of-knowledge/language-documentation/
 * http://www.elpublishing.org/docs/1/07/ldd07_02.pdf Peter Austin quotes several definitions:

"Language documentation (also known by the term ‘documentary linguistics’) is the subfield of linguistics that is ‘concerned with the methods, tools, and theoretical underpinnings for compiling a representative and lasting multipurpose record of a natural language or one of its varieties’ (Himmelmann 2006:v). A similar definition is given by Woodbury (2010) as ‘the creation, annotation, preservation, and dissemination of transparent records of a language’. Language documentation is by its nature multidisciplinary, and as Woodbury (2010) notes, it draws on ‘concepts and techniques from linguistics, ethnography, psychology, computer science, recording arts, and more’ (see Harrison 2005, Coelho 2005, Eisenbeiss 2005 for examples)."