r12n | @[email protected]

r(evitalizatio)n: digital media, tech, and culture in #minoritized #languages | migrating to the fediverse

[r12n | @[email protected] @r12ntech]

Digital Language Survival Kit: major new report from @DLDProject provides concrete, practical advice for helping #minority languages thrive https://t.co/KiibHyarGI #local #indigenous #regional #language

[r12n | @[email protected] @r12ntech]

"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
https://t.co/2BtkpuUqUK

[Dr. Teresa Lynn @cigilt]

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

[r12n | @[email protected] @r12ntech]

.@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.

[r12n | @[email protected] @r12ntech]

"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

https://t.co/7YBBqDDNq7

[Recovering Voices @RecoverVoices]

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.

📽️: https://t.co/Km8Z2sngQP

[Derek Lackaff @lackaff]

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

https://t.co/mjqHbpV3qO

[NPLD @npldeu]

We recommend this beautiful and enriching playlist of 64 songs in European Regional and Minority Languages.
Great job @EFAparty. Thank you!
#loveyourlanguage #lovelanguagediversity #EuropeanLanguageDiversity

[Dr Gerald Roche @GJosephRoche]

A great 🧵 for Global Language Advocacy Day - so many good things to listen to and excellent accounts to follow & learn about linguistic justice #GLAD22

[Celtic Language Technology Workshop (CLTW) @cltw2022]

This year will see a 4th edition of CLTW, co-located with @lrec2022 in Marseille, France, in June!🌞 Call for papers open - see https://t.co/BTwyEXPYZn. Paper deadline 8 April. #language #technology #NLProc #Cymraeg #Gaeilge #Gaelg #Gaidhlig #Brezhoneg #Kernewek #Kernowek

[r12n | @[email protected] @r12ntech]

#Wordle clones in #brezhoneg, #kernowek, #frysk, #galego, #gaeilge, #tereo, #gàidhlig, #cymraeg and many more languages!

[Júda Ronén ☮️ (moved to the Fediverse 🕸; see bio) @JudaRonen]

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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https://t.co/EM4tdxyOyX

[r12n | @[email protected] @r12ntech]

@lysbeth2_0 @PraatmarFrysk https://t.co/vvpTPPpYcq :)

[r12n | @[email protected] @r12ntech]

#Lëtzebuergesch #Wordle #Wuertle from @svnee

https://t.co/Pf6b4gn1wF

[Sven Clement @svnee]

Als grousse Fan vu Rätsel (a Wordle) an der 🇱🇺 Sprooch hunn ech e lëtzebuergeschen Wordle ënnert https://t.co/x78lqgQCsT opgesat.

Probéiert et aus, et sinn lauter Wierder aus dem #LOD vum @den_ZLS déi glécklecherweis als #OpenData op @OpenDataLU verëffentlecht sinn.

[r12n | @[email protected] @r12ntech]

#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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https://t.co/4MRf5n2WMs

[r12n | @[email protected] @r12ntech]

@JudaRonen Ah, great! Thanks for sharing. I suspect the list is going to expand quickly. Language tech + games + revitalization is an interesting intersection.

[r12n | @[email protected] @r12ntech]

Here's a list of #Wordle language versions in development (not mine):

https://t.co/WlssdA49Kw

[Much Language Such Talk @MLST_podcast]

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

[r12n | @[email protected] @r12ntech]

"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.

https://t.co/1pIHgdyIGf

[r12n | @[email protected] @r12ntech]

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?"

[Martin ter Denge @MartinTerDenge]

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.

https://t.co/TRWP2Y0VKS

[r12n | @[email protected] @r12ntech]

Love, love this video.

[European Language Technology @EuroLangTech]

Day 1 of #METAFORUM2021 has successfully concluded & we can't wait for Day 2, with sessions on the European #LT industry & language-centric #AI: https://t.co/sHo6Gx23uj But first, check out the featured video of little Moraima speaking Galician with #Siri:https://t.co/KAgiYYoVwO

[ICLDC @ICLDC_HI]

Indigenous languages project urges Cop26 leaders to rethink ties to the land:

https://t.co/Fu3QrGK8XV