Gmail Now Supports Cherokee, Its First Native American Tribal Language (fwd link)

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Gmail Now Supports Cherokee, Its First Native American Tribal Language
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Google just announced that it has added Cherokee as Gmail’s 57th supported
language<http://gmailblog.blogspot.com/2012/11/gmail-get-started-with-gmail-in-cherokee.html>.
While Google has continuously expanded its language support for Gmail and
its other services, this marks the first time that Google has added a
Native American tribal language to its repertoire.

Google, of course, isn’t doing this because of the large number of
Cherokee<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cherokee_language>-speaking
Gmail users who are demanding support for their language. Indeed, the
company points toward a 2002
survey<http://www.cherokee.org/Services/Education/30831/Information.aspx>
of
the Oklahoma Cherokee population that found that “no one under 40 spoke
conversational Cherokee.” Because of this survey, however, the Cherokee
Nation <http://www.cherokee.org/> decided to explore the use of technology
to encourage a new generation to use the language.
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http://techcrunch.com/2012/11/19/gmail-now-supports-cherokee-its-first-native-american-tribal-language/
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