How to bring a language to the future
Have you ever thought about what it’s like when you cannot use your own language online? As in: You literally cannot type it in a chat message or a Google doc? In fact, that’s the case for a majority of languages, and not just those spoken by very few people. Meet the people fighting to digitally preserve Urdu, benefiting 70 million native speakers in Pakistan and India
From Weekly Filet #334, in February 2021.
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