Preserving Indigenous Languages Via Twitter (fwd link)

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Preserving Indigenous Languages Via Twitter

BY NEAL UNGERLEIDER

Tweets in Basque? Tweets in Polynesian? Tweets in Navajo? An ambitious new
project is collecting tweets from indigenous languages around the world.

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.

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http://www.fastcompany.com/1747283/indigenous-tweet-preserving-indigenous-languages-via-twitter
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