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The Representation of Indigenous Languages of Oceania in Academic Publications

Publications, 2021
Of the estimated 7117 languages in the world, approximately 1500 (21%) are indigenous to the Pacific. Despite composing approximately one-fourth of the world’s linguistic diversity, the representation of these languages in academic publication is scant ...
Eve Koller, Malayah Thompson
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AmericasNLI: Machine translation and natural language inference systems for Indigenous languages of the Americas. [PDF]

Front Artif Intell, 2022
Little attention has been paid to the development of human language technology for truly low-resource languages—i.e., languages with limited amounts of digitally available text data, such as Indigenous languages.
Kann K, Ebrahimi A, Mager M, Oncevay A, Ortega JE, Rios A, Fan A, Gutierrez-Vasques X, Chiruzzo L, Giménez-Lugo GA, Ramos R, Meza Ruiz IV, Mager E, Chaudhary V, Neubig G, Palmer A, Coto-Solano R, Vu NT.   +17 more
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The use of technology to preserve indigenous languages of South Africa

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Indigenous languages in South Africa must be preserved to ensure that they do not lose their identity and become extinct. The four indigenous languages with the fewest speakers among South Africa’s 12 official languages are: Xitsonga, Siswati, Tshivenḓa ...
Respect Mlambo, Muzi Matfunjwa
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Indigenous languages and global health [PDF]

The Lancet Global Health, 2018
David Flood, Peter Rohloff
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Exploring intellectualisation of South African indigenous languages for academic purposes

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Language represents an individual’s identity in many respects. It is a natural ability of any average person that they use to express thoughts and ideas, investigate their traditions and experiences, and better their community and the laws that govern it.
Matefu L. Mabela, Thabo Ditsele
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Women from rural Guatemala who speak Mayan languages have reduced odds of diabetes, hypertension and obesity [PDF]

Frontiers in Public Health
IntroductionIndigenous languages are integral to the individual and collective identity of humankind. Health benefits of speaking Indigenous languages have been demonstrated but may also be masked by various forms of linguistic and ethnic discrimination.
Stephen Alajajian, Anahí Venzor Strader, Anahí Venzor Strader, Yolanda Juarez Martin, Caitlin Scott, Peter Rohloff, Peter Rohloff   +6 more
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Revitalizing Indigenous languages, cultures, and histories in Montana, across the United States and around the globe

Cogent Education, 2017
Many educators have sung the praises of Indian Education for All, Montana’s constitutional mandate, and heard the successes of Montana’s Indigenous language revitalization efforts which reverberate around the globe.
Jioanna Carjuzaa
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Indigenous Languages

International Journal of English Learning & Teaching Skills, 2019

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Ethical Considerations for Machine Translation of Indigenous Languages: Giving a Voice to the Speakers [PDF]

Annual Meeting of the Association for Computational Linguistics, 2023
In recent years machine translation has become very successful for high-resource language pairs. This has also sparked new interest in research on the automatic translation of low-resource languages, including Indigenous languages.
Manuel Mager, Elisabeth Mager, Katharina Kann, Ngoc Thang Vu   +3 more
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Improving Neural Machine Translation of Indigenous Languages with Multilingual Transfer Learning [PDF]

LORESMT, 2022
Machine translation (MT) involving Indigenous languages, including endangered ones, is challenging primarily due to lack of sufficient parallel data.
Wei-Rui Chen, M. Abdul-Mageed
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