Tag: internet
Indigenous Taiwanese Languages Now Available on Wikipedia
The overwhelming majority of the world’s languages have a very small presence on the Internet—just 35 languages make up about 99% of the content...
White House Relaunches Spanish Website
In his first day in office, President Biden’s administration relaunched online Spanish-language communications that had been previously discontinued under the Trump Administration. The Trump...
Indonesia to Digitize Indigenous Scripts
UNESCO and the Indonesian Internet Domain Registry (PANDI) have announced plans to work on digitizing the Indigenous scripts of Indonesia through an initiative called...
Indian Languages Outpacing English Online
According to a recent study, the growth of Indian language internet users is growing at 18% per year, so that by 2021 the total...
Fulfilling the Technological Promise
Language Magazine asks luminaries in the EdTech landscape what to expect and what we can hope for in 2018
I am hoping that school district leaders...
Keeping the Internet Real
Amid all the talk of fake news, misinformation, and abuse of personal information, the...
Social Climbing
Yue Meng and Nile Stanley see the educational value in social networking sites
If you type “Facebook educational usage” into Google, it will show millions...
The Icelandic Language, Nationalism, and the Internet
In 2013, a paper by András Kornai entitled “Digital Language Death” estimated that only 5% of the world's languages would ascend into the digital...
Information Inequality and the Languages of the Internet
The Guardian recently published an interactive guide by Holly Young, editor of the Case for Language Learning series on education, that details how language...
Emojis and the Language of the Internet
People have been complaining about language being ruined by younger generations for thousands of years. Linguist John McWhorter noted that a Roman scholar in...
How Internet Slang Enters ASL Vernacular
As the Oxford dictionary updates its lexicon with Internet-y terms such as “lolcat” (a photograph of a cat accompanied by a humorous and typically...
