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| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5264 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 1 of 1 17 April 2011 at 12:41pm | IP Logged |
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I saw this on the BBC website today which may be of interest to those of you who are interested in so-called "minor" languages: Micro-blogging in a mother tongue The article is by Dave Lee:
"Modern technology is often blamed for homogenising our ever-shrinking world, particularly when it comes to traditional local cultures and customs. Minority and endangered languages are especially vulnerable, but one ingenious site is working hard to track indigenous tweets." indigenoustweets.com Haitian Creole: 7,468 users who tweet Basque: 3,788 Welsh: 2,729 Occitan: 82 Nahuatl: 5 Hawaian: 24 Yiddish: 183 Frisian/Frysk 1,816 The site supports 68 lesser used languages. When you click on a language it shows you the twitter-ers and the percentage that they tweet in the language. Fascinating! Edited by iguanamon on 17 April 2011 at 7:48pm 5 persons have voted this message useful |
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