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."

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 tinyurl.com/h5tut3b4

Indigenous languages project urges Cop26 leaders to rethink ties to the land: theguardian.com/environment/20…

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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?"

"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 (@dair-community.social/bsky.social) launches Distributed AI Research Institute is on Mastodon to document AI’s harms on marginalized groups. washingtonpost.com/technology/202…

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

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

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/celticlt/cltw/…. Paper deadline 8 April. #language #technology #NLProc #Cymraeg #Gaeilge #Gaelg #Gaidhlig #Brezhoneg #Kernewek #Kernowek

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

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 Global Coalition for Language Rights medium.com/r12n/local-lan…

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

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/MT2022Reclamat…

"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/wir…

.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.

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 fedegasp #Gaeilge #AI #languagetechnology #NLProc #research

"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-indi…