Calling all Wikimedians! 🌍📷 Join us for the relaunch of the Wikitongues User Group on September 29th at 4:00 p.m. UTC. Zoom meeting details and registration here: bit.ly/WKTRelaunch Let's celebrate #LanguageRevitalization and promote #LanguageDiversity together!

Pliémue = Plymouth Bristo = Bristol Wique = IoW Noroui = Norwich Salebiéthe = Salisbury Hamptonne = Southampton Lé Neuchâté = Newcastle Les Câtchieaux = Chester Manchêtre = Manchester Dgèdéfort = Guildford Nicolle = Lincoln Porchémue = Portsmouth Ièrmue = Yarmouth #Jèrriais

Great news! We hit a milestone. The Living Dictionaries platform now houses over 200,000 #dictionary entries. Big shout-out to the 930+ language activists currently building Living Dictionaries for under-resourced, endangered and minority #languages on the platform.

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A moving tribute to our colleague Ignacio Tomichá Chuvé (1985-2023) by Eddie Avila from risingvoices. It was an honor for us to collaborate with Chuvé over the years. globalvoices.org/2023/09/27/the…

Félicitations. Après des années en incubateur, le fon, la langue nationale la + parlée au Bénin est désormais parmi plus de 300 langues au monde à travers fon.wikipedia.org officiellement lancé.👉w.wiki/7fSS Wikipédia Fon #wesexo @wikimediafonation

Some reports claim that in 2023, AI speech recognition is 99% accurate. “But when it comes to Indigenous languages, it’s literally 0 percent accurate…The way that we're building out technology is contributing to a culture of further [cultural] genocide and erasure of languages.”

Friends—if you experienced outages at wikitongues.org recently, the site is back live! Thank you for your patience.

ICT researcher Jacqueline Brixey is part of Wikitongues Language Revitalization Fellowship's 2023 cohort, using #NLP (Natural Language Processing) #NLU (Natural Language Understanding) #MT (Machine Translation) to revitalize the #Choctaw language. #NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

On behalf of Living Tongues, Dr. Luke Horo will be presenting research on the #phonetic correlates of syllable prominence in #Mundari at the Second International Conference on Tone and Intonation (#TAI2023) on November 18-20 in Singapore. Full program: colips.org/conferences/ta…

We are delighted to announce the launch of Ready to Revitalize, ELP's new online course in #LanguageRevitalization! 📅 Applications will open November 13. We'll post the application link then - we can't wait to hear from you!

Join us on Sat. Dec 9 at 1pm EST for our end-of-year Online Gala! We will share our research highlights and progress from 2023. RSVP here: us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regist… #linguistics #endangeredlanguages #languagedocumentation

Dr. Greg Anderson and Opino Gomango recently presented two papers on Munda linguistics at the 37th South Asian Languages Analysis Roundtable (SALA) in Venice, Italy. It was Opino's first trip to Italy! Thanks to the organizers of this event. #SALA37