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Translating scientific jargon into Navajo
As the scientific community largely publishes in high-resource languages, languages like Navajo have been left behind, making it hard to translate scientific work adequately.
Culture
Africa Day 2022: Developing a more equitable tech landscape for African languages
Most of the nations of Africa have been politically independent of colonial powers for the better part of half a century now. Still, discussions at the intersections of language and technology often overlook the continent.
Technology
How digitization helps preserve languages
With a significant round of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities going toward Native American language digitization projects earlier this year, along with several other recent projects to digitize indigenous languages across the world, it’s worth exploring how these projects can aid in language revitalization.
Localization
WikiAfrica Expands Africa’s Access to COVID-19 Information
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began in March 2020, it has become especially critical that everyone has access to public health information in their native...