<font size="2"><font face="georgia,serif">Preserving Indigenous Languages Via Twitter<br><br>BY NEAL UNGERLEIDER<br><br>Tweets in Basque? Tweets in Polynesian? Tweets in Navajo? An ambitious new project is collecting tweets from indigenous languages around the world.<br>
<br>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.<br>
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