Preserving Indigenous Languages Via Twitter (fwd link)

[Kevin Scannell]

Thanks Phil - I'm really amazed at the attention it's getting.  The fact that
it's on twitter has a lot to do with it - it's spreading fast as
people continue to
tweet about it.   I've never been much of a twitter user myself but I'm starting
to come around!

I've gotten suggestions for several indigenous American languages to
add - thanks everyone for those, and please keep the suggestions coming if you
know of or discover people tweeting in your native language.

Kevin

On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 4:47 PM, Phil Cash Cash <pasxapu at dakotacom.net> wrote:
> 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
>
>