Online Maltese needs help to survive, say lecturers (fwd link)

[Phillip E Cash Cash]

Monday, October 29, 2012 by Patrick Cooke, Bertrand Borg

*Online Maltese needs help to survive, say lecturers
*
You may Google, Facebook and tweet in English rather than Maltese but
linguistic experts are confident Malta’s mother tongue can survive online –
if more investment is made in developing language technology.

A recent report found that Maltese was one of four European languages most
at risk of disappearing online due to lack of digital support, such as
spelling and grammar checkers, automatic translation systems and web search
engines.

“The report’s a very useful warning but it’s in no way a death knell,” said
Albert Gatt, a linguistics lecturer at the University of Malta.

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