[Corpora-List] Re: Minor(ity) Language

[Steven Krauwer]

Ed Kenschaft wrote:

> In my circle, the most common term might be "scarce-resource
> languages".  (We got tired of explaining to people that the meaning of
> "low density" had nothing to do with density.)  The term gets at the
> idea that a language might be spoken by a lot of people, but still not
> have a lot of computational resources available (e.g. Hindi, Urdu).

My favourite term is "Technologically Challenged Languages".
See e.g. Justus Roux in his presentation at LREC2004
(http://www.lrec-conf.org/lrec2004/doc/presentation/Roux.pdf)

Steven
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