Preserving Indigenous Languages Via Twitter (fwd link)

[Phil Cash Cash]

Greetings Kevin, I am glad to see your Indigenous Tweets project is  
getting some good press!

Phil
ILAT mg

On Apr 14, 2011, at 11:19 AM, Phillip E Cash Cash wrote:

> Preserving Indigenous Languages Via Twitter
>
> BY NEAL UNGERLEIDER
>
> Tweets in Basque? Tweets in Polynesian? Tweets in Navajo? An  
> ambitious new project is collecting tweets from indigenous languages  
> around the world.
>
> Twitter's robust community of non-English speakers just got another  
> boost with the launch of a new site called Indigenous Tweets. The  
> site, created by St. Louis-based computational linguistics professor  
> Kevin Patrick Scannell, collects tweets from more than 70 languages.  
> These range from better-known tongues such as Haitian Creole and  
> Basque to the downright esoteric Gamilaraay, an Australian  
> indigenous language with approximately three living speakers.
>
> Access full article below:
> http://www.fastcompany.com/1747283/indigenous-tweet-preserving-indigenous-languages-via-twitter

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