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

[maxwell at ldc.upenn.edu]

On Mar 9 2006, 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).

I like your term much better (and I totally empathize with the problem of 
explaining "low density").

  Mike Maxwell
  CASL