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Letters: They are more likely to thrive and receive funding from Nordic governments if an academy is formed to establish unified language norms, writes Donald Rayfield

The Guardian - UK

Linguist calls for London’s endangered language communities to be mapped

British capital may be second only to New York in the number of at-risk languages spoken, says Ross Perlin

The Guardian - UK

Going down a Wikipedia rabbit hole? Science says you’re one of these three types

If you’ve ever gone to look up a quick fact and just kept browsing from one article (or page, or video), to another, to another – then you know the feeling of “going down a rabbit hole”. This experience of curiosity-led online wandering has become synonymous with the free, user-created…

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Samsung Galaxy AI gains support for four new languages

Samsung also added a couple of dialects support to existing Galaxy AI languages as part of the rollout.

Android Central

Book about preserving endangered languages wins British Academy Book Prize 2024

Ross Perlin’s Language City: The Fight To Preserve Endangered Mother Tongues won from a six-book shortlist.

Evening Standard

With AI translation tools so powerful, what is the point of learning a language?

In the age of artificial intelligence (AI), foreign language learning can seem like it’s becoming obsolete. Why invest the time and effort to learn another language when technology can do it for you?

The Conversation

Funding cuts could mean death of Sámi languages, say Indigenous parliaments

Sweden and Finland plan to slash funding to safeguard nine languages defined as threatened by Unesco

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Eminent public personalities, laud to grant classical language to Bengali

Several eminent public personalities, educationists, academics and scholars endorsed and lauded the Union Cabinet's decision. Read further on Dynamite News:

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Alibaba releases new translation-focused AI model for international ecommerce, trade, and everyday life

New translation AI model from Alibaba has reportedly already surpassed other translation models, more languages to come.

TechRadar

Senegal Embracing Wolof Language Over French Influence

Discover how Senegal is embracing Wolof alongside French, reflecting cultural pride and inclusivity in a changing linguistic landscape.

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In Senegal, the bastion of the region's Francophonie, French is giving way to local languages

For decades Senegal, a former French colony in West Africa, has been touted as the bastion of the French language in the region

The Independent UK

Wretched of the Earth has been translated into South Africa’s Zulu language – why Frantz Fanon’s revolutionary book still matters

Frantz Fanon was an influential psychiatrist, Algerian revolutionary and pan-African thinker who was born on the Caribbean island of Martinique. His work – and particularly his final book The Wretched of the Earth (1961) – is still widely referenced to understand the fight against colonialism and also the postcolonial era…

The Conversation

These are apparently the most popular coding languages around - with an old favourite taking top spot

Despite JavaScript’s dominance, many developers are keen to use Python, study claims.

TechRadar

The Supreme Court of Canada is wrong to refuse to translate its pre-1970 decisions

The Supreme Court of Canada has published all of its decisions in both official languages since 1970, immediately after the Official Languages Act was enacted.

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The Rings of Power used a Lord of the Rings movie veteran to help its actors learn fictional Tolkien languages

Celebrimbor actor Charles Edwards recalls learning Black Speech for his surprise opening scene in The Rings of Power season 2

The Walrus

Social Media Is Helping Bring Indigenous Languages Back from the Brink

Government funding is dwindling. TikTok and Instagram are filling the gap

TechRadar

You can now chat and play games with Duolingo’s AI characters to learn Spanish or French

Duolingo unveils AI features for learning languages.

TechRadar

Google hails move to Rust for huge drop in memory vulnerabilities

Google's use of memory safe programming languages has led to an unprecendented drop in vulnerabilities

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ChatGPT's human-like Advanced Voice Mode feature can say “Sorry I’m late” in over 50 languages — but the EU is reportedly turning a deaf ear to OpenAI's plea because it can detect user emotion

OpenAI's Advanced Voice Mode feature won't be available for users in the EU region because of the stringent EU AI Act, which prohibits the use of AI systems that can recognize a user's emotions.

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Forget the Digital Divide, a Google leader is warning of the forthcoming "AI Divide"

We already have a Digital Divide. There’s a real risk that it turns into an AI Divide. So how do you make sure that doesn’t happen?

The National (Scotland)

Andrew Marr blasts 'ridiculous' and 'offensive' Gaelic signs in parts of Scotland

ANDREW Marr has hit out at “offensive” and “ridiculous” gaelic signs in parts of Scotland.

Evening Standard

When is the International Day of Sign Language 2024? September celebration planned

Sign Language (BSL) is to become a bigger part of our daily lives with more of an opportunity for all to learn it and, in turn, opening doors for deaf people.

The National (Scotland)

A multinational, bilingual community and a home away from home

AS I enter the room, I am instantly hit with a mix of languages, with Portuguese and English being the two predominant ones.

The Conversation

Personal histories shape how immigrant families transmit their home language to children

According to Statistics Canada, in 2021, one in four Canadians had at least one mother tongue other than English or French. Many people grow up with their family’s heritage languages — like Mandarin, Punjabi, Spanish or Arabic — as part of their family’s cultural heritage.

The Guardian - UK

UK urged to promote speaking of Irish and Ulster Scots in Northern Ireland

Council of Europe also calls for more support for Cornish, Scots, Scottish Gaelic, Welsh and Manx Gaelic

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