Internet domains in aboriginal languages soon (fwd link)

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Internet domains in aboriginal languages soon

Published on : Friday 30 Oct 2009

There have been long-standing accusations hitherto from the inception of
internet services that the entire medium is subservient to the domination of
one single language – English. There are, in fact, copious numbers of pros and
cons and we need not get into those details. But perhaps no one can hurl
accusation any more, since a sea change is going to occur bore long.

Hold your breadth. From the coming mid-November, countries and territories will
be able to apply to depict domain names in their aboriginal language, a major
technical tweak to the Internet designed to heighten language accessibility.

Access full article below:
http://www.littleabout.com/news/42166,internet-domains-aboriginal-languages.html



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