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Darn! The organization is not involved with indigenous languages in Mexico. Im involved with a project among Wikimedia México, Red Nacional de Jóvenes Indígenas, ed de Comunicadores Boca de Polen and the Escuela Nacional de Antropología e Historía (affiliated with INAH) to develop and promote the creation and maintenance of Wikipedias in the various indigenous languages of this country. We have an informal agreement with the Instituto Nacional de Lenguas Indigenas, but are working on formalizing it. Essentially, it will involve not only training and encouraging speakers of these languages to write articles, but also to develop keyboards, operating systems and interfaces with Wikipedia in the target languages. For most of the languages, the first main challenge is to come up with a writing system, as many do not have a standard and many, like Mixteca, have a lot of dialects.<br><br>Anyone who might be interested in this project are welcome to look at Wikimedia México's page at http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_M%C3%A9xico and especially the minutes of the last meeting on 4 March here (in Spanish) http://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_M%C3%A9xico/Lenguas_de_M%C3%A9xico/Minuta_4_de_marzo_de_2011<br><br>Or feel free to contact me. Theres a very good chance we will need some expert linguistic advice!<br><br>Leigh<br><br>> Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2011 22:00:04 -0700<br>> From: rtroike@EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU<br>> Subject: Foundation for Endangered Languages newsletter<br>> To: UAESL-L@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU<br>> <br>> Click on this link:<br>> <br>> http://www.ogmios.org/ogmios/Ogmios_043.pdf<br> </body>
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