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Small languages need big language's help to reach IT giants

Languages that are not used in the digital world will not survive. That is the brutal message which formed the basis for the Nordic language meeting – a two days long conference on the latest development in language technology.
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Two Greenlandic women

holding up a child in a Nuuk street in Greenland (above).

Facts about Greenlandic

Greenlandic, or Kalaallisut as the Greenlanders call their language, is spoken by 50,000 people and is also understood more or less by 40,000 Inuits in Canada. There are three dialects – West Greenlandic, which is the largest, and Northern and Eastern Greenlandic. UNESCO considers Western Greenlandic to be in a “vulnerable” state. The largest linguistic difference is found between Western and Eastern Greenlandic (which is spoken by only 5,000 people).

The Nordic language meeting

was this year organised by The Language Council of Norway and ran online on 26 and 27 August. The theme was language technology.

Declaration on a Nordic Language Policy

According to the Nordic language declaration:

"Nordic language policy has a responsibility to world society to see that in particular the languages that are not national languages anywhere continue to live and develop, and that all minority languages can continue to exist. It is important that sign language also be granted a strong position."

Read the whole declaration:
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