PanLex director David Kamholz presents on PanLex’s work on the Palm Leaf Wiki, highlighting the technical challenges in supporting Balinese script and the growing community of Balinese contributors to the wiki. - https://t.co/0rGv40aocn
PanLex explores a partnership: our powerful translation capability, coupled with Wikidata’s worldwide crowdsourcing reach, opens exciting possibilities. Read about this and a great word story in our November newsletter. https://t.co/2Grnpop9ou
Make a difference in 2020. PanLex needs to raise 50% of next year’s budget. If everyone gives $10, PanLex can enter 2020 strong. Your support fosters a world where everyone can maintain their language and still operate on the world stage. https://t.co/8nxRucmqOj
Can a Balinese horoscope predict a cockfight winner? PanLex travels to Bali to meet with palm-leaf manuscript scholars and enthusiasts to coordinate efforts to bring a rich body of literature to broader audiences in Bali and across the globe. https://t.co/q2do1WS0ad
Why do cats sound the same across languages, but dogs don't? Onomatopœtic words for meowing and barking from around the world may pattern on the nature of communication in cats and dogs themselves. - https://t.co/Ha9lqRkFUt
Can you eat the kitchen? Two languages on the island of Halmahera, Indonesia, require grammatical marking of the edible vs the inedible. But what counts as edible? https://t.co/GaQrhZogx7
PanLex on the Moon - https://t.co/3WivR7uxme
The entire PanLex Database of 1.3 billion lexical translations is traveling to the Moon in a time-capsule on Israel's SpaceIL Beresheet lunar lander.