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Digital Language Survival Kit: major new report from @DLDProject provides concrete, practical advice for helping #minority languages thrive wp.dldp.eu/wp-content/upload… #local #indigenous #regional #language
ALT Cover of DLDP Digital Language Survival Kit
"At Red Cloud – a former boarding school – the #Lakota language program has a special significance in that it fits with their 'Truth and Healing Initiative.'"
Red Cloud Indian School using Lakota language immersion to shape future generations
newscenter1.tv/red-cloud-ind…
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Very grateful to @thejournal_ie for this write-up on our EU project (ELE) that's investigating the gaps in Digital Language Equality across European languages... including Irish 🇮🇪
@tarfandy @janiedunne @fedegasp1
#Gaeilge #AI #languagetechnology #NLProc #research
To flourish in the longterm, the Irish language has to be usable online - here are the major challenges it needs to overcome in the digital world
jrnl.ie/5725794t
.@LR_Coordination launches urgent plea for language data to support cross-border communication for refugees in the Ukraine crisis.
Seeking data donations of bi- and/or multilingual corpora for #Ukrainian to train an easily accessible, free and fast automatic translation system.
"Phone users will be able to find apps and toggle settings using the syllable-based written form of the language first created by the Cherokee Nation’s Sequoyah in the early 1800s."
Cherokee on a smartphone: Part of a drive to save a language
abcnews.go.com/Technology/wi…
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Have you ever wondered about technology’s influence on language? If so, check out director Ulivia Uviluk’s film Inuktitut Dialects in the 21st Century with #MotherTongue2022 and explore technology as a tool for language preservation.
📽️: bit.ly/MT2022Reclamation
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Today is Global Language Advocacy Day. Should designers and technologists care about languages?
Absolutely.
It's not just an issue of market reach -- it's an issue of human rights.
#GLAD22 @GlobLangRights
medium.com/r12n/local-langua…
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We recommend this beautiful and enriching playlist of 64 songs in European Regional and Minority Languages.
Great job @EFAparty. Thank you!
#loveyourlanguage #lovelanguagediversity #EuropeanLanguageDiversity
On the #InternationalMotherLanguageDay, we celebrate European linguistic diversity. Check out our new playlist including songs in all the different mother languages of our members: Catalan, Frisian, Gaelic, and many more! 🎶🎸
👉 Click here and follow us: spoti.fi/3JMQ0Vj
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A great 🧵 for Global Language Advocacy Day - so many good things to listen to and excellent accounts to follow & learn about linguistic justice #GLAD22
A thread of podcast episodes to celebrate Global Language Advocacy day
✨🧵✨ #GLAD22
All podcasts feature the work of language advocates, and include transcripts:
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This year will see a 4th edition of CLTW, co-located with @lrec2022 in Marseille, France, in June!🌞 Call for papers open - see techiaith.bangor.ac.uk/celti…. Paper deadline 8 April. #language #technology #NLProc #Cymraeg #Gaeilge #Gaelg #Gaidhlig #Brezhoneg #Kernewek #Kernowek
#Wordle clones in #brezhoneg, #kernowek, #frysk, #galego, #gaeilge, #tereo, #gàidhlig, #cymraeg and many more languages!
I really enjoy Wordle and similar games in languages I know… so I compiled a list of different versions I’ve managed to find online (64 at the moment 😮!)
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rwmpelstilzchen.gitlab.io/wo…
#Wordle clones have been created in many languages. Are you already playing in your yours, or know of a project in development?
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restofworld.org/2022/wordle-…
Als grousse Fan vu Rätsel (a Wordle) an der 🇱🇺 Sprooch hunn ech e lëtzebuergeschen Wordle ënnert wuertle.netlify.app opgesat.
Probéiert et aus, et sinn lauter Wierder aus dem #LOD vum @den_ZLS déi glécklecherweis als #OpenData op @OpenDataLU verëffentlecht sinn.
Here's a list of #Wordle language versions in development (not mine):
github.com/thiskurt/wordle-l…
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Thought-provoking conversation from our last episode with @GuillemBelmar: Minoritization is done to a community and their language(s) - which is why using the term 'Minority' can be misleading.
S2E6 - Listen to it now!
#mlstpodcast #bilingualism #podcast #educational
"she hopes to use the funding to break free of the broken incentives of Big Tech" incl. a lack of focus on "less profit-oriented aims, such as language revitalization"
@timnitGebru launches @DAIRInstitute to document AI’s harms on marginalized groups.
washingtonpost.com/technolog…
Groovy new #SaxonSeries podcast ep. 5: "New Century, New Opportunities – Saxon goes digital" (in English)
"Next up is Saxon on the Internet, specifically on #Wikipedia. Why are there separate German and Dutch Low Saxon Wikipedias?"
Y gelöyvet et neet, mär der is weader nen nyen #SaxonSeries Podcast! Dit mål kummet wy endelik es in de 21. eywe. In et engelsk ouk noch.
wearldsproake.nl/2021/11/30/…
Love, love this video.
Day 1 of #METAFORUM2021 has successfully concluded & we can't wait for Day 2, with sessions on the European #LT industry & language-centric #AI: european-language-grid.eu/me… But first, check out the featured video of little Moraima speaking Galician with #Siri:youtube.com/watch?v=OPMHlRfu…
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Indigenous languages project urges Cop26 leaders to rethink ties to the land:
theguardian.com/environment/…
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Are you a #speaker of #basque #euskera #galician #galego #scots #sami #saami #davvisámegiella #gaelic #gàidhlig #cornish #kernewek ?
Help us with testing our #app!
Download iOS: tinyurl.com/3t4fvunu
Google Play: tinyurl.com/e6kxts2u
Give #Feedback
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Haugen: "Ethiopia has 100m people and speak six languages. Facebook only supports two. If we believe in linguistic diversity, the current design of the platform is dangerous."