1000 Languages on the Web (fwd link)

Phillip E Cash Cash cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU
Sat Dec 31 00:05:05 UTC 2011


2011-12-23

1000 Languages on the Web

Kevin Scannell

Since 2003 I've been gathering texts from the web written in
indigenous and minority languages.  The image above is a "family tree"
of the 1000 languages I've found to date, where proximity in the tree
is measured by a straightforward statistical comparison of writing
systems (details below).

Access full article below:
http://indigenoustweets.blogspot.com/2011/12/1000-languages-on-web.html



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