🤖 Ah, #Meta has cracked the code to translate 1,600 languages... until you realize they’ve left out about 5,400 others. 🌍🔍 Apparently, ‘No Language Left Behind’ only applies if those languages were popular in the last century. 🧐 #TechInnovationOrSomething
https://ai.meta.com/research/publications/omnilingual-mt-machine-translation-for-1600-languages/?_fb_noscript=1 #TechInnovation #LanguageTranslation #AI #GlobalLanguages #LanguageDiversity #HackerNews #ngated
Omnilingual MT: Machine Translation for 1,600 Languages | Research - AI at Meta

Advances made through No Language Left Behind (NLLB) have demonstrated that high-quality machine translation (MT) scale to 200 languages. Later Large...

💬🌐 Join the global online translat-a-thon this Saturday, 6 December at 13:00 CET

‘Many Tongues, One Movement: Voices Across Languages' will be a day of collaborative translation to make key Wikimedia capacity-building resources accessible in every language.

More details ⬇️
https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Event:Many_Tongues%2C_One_Movement%3AVoices_Across_Languages

#Wikimedia #LanguageDiversity #CapX #WikimediaTranslatathon

Event:Many Tongues, One Movement:Voices Across Languages - Meta-Wiki

Happy #WorldRomaLanguageDay! 💜

Romani (rromani ćhib) is an Indo-Aryan language with great internal diversity, spoken by over 4.6 million people across Europe. Major dialects include Vlax, Balkan, and Sinte Romani, plus many local varieties shaped by contact with other languages.

Its diversity reflects Roma journeys through centuries of movement and adaptation. Honoring this richness means honoring Roma identity.

#Linguistics #LanguageDiversity #MinorityLanguages #Romani

Africa: African Languages for AI - the Project That's Gathering a Huge New Dataset: [The Conversation Africa] Artificial intelligence (AI) tools like ChatGPT, DeepSeek, Siri or Google Assistant are developed by the global north and trained in English, Chinese or European languages. In comparison, African languages are largely missing from the internet. http://newsfeed.facilit8.network/TNkCW8 #AI #ArtificialIntelligence #AfricanLanguages #LanguageDiversity #DataCollection

🌍 Did you know that saying hello in South Africa is more than just a greeting 🇿🇦
With 11 official languages, every hello carries cultural meaning, warmth and respect. It’s how we recognise one another, build connections and celebrate the diversity that makes our country so unique.

📖 Read it here: https://zurl.co/QjPyS

#BabyYumYum #BYY #SouthAfrica #HeritageDay #HelloSA #HeritageMonth #LanguageDiversity #CulturalConnection #LearnLanguages #BYYParenting

🐒 Oh, rejoice! An extension that ensures you stay blissfully unaware of foreign content by stubbornly refusing translations on YouTube. Because who needs linguistic diversity when you have Firefox extensions? 🌎✨
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/youtube-no-translation/ #YouTubeExtensions #LanguageDiversity #FirefoxExtensions #TechNews #BrowsingExperience #HackerNews #ngated
YouTube No Translation – Get this Extension for 🦊 Firefox (en-US)

Download YouTube No Translation for Firefox. Keeps YouTube content in its original language (Titles, Audio Tracks, Descriptions...)

Bilingual education isn’t a luxury—it’s a necessity. Beyond language skills, it boosts problem-solving and cognitive flexibility. Imagine the impact if all schools made it a core part of the curriculum.

#BilingualEducation #LanguageDiversity #EducationForAll

How do you save a language from extinction? With creative thinking—and some help from Wikipedia

In the 1990s, fewer than 350 people spoke Inari Sámi. Today, experts say about 500 people speak the near-extinct language, and the movement to learn it is growing.

Why do some places have so many languages? Gibb reflects on this in #ThatWordChat. The answer has less to do with geography and more to do with isolation and autonomy. #RareTongues #Linguistics #LanguageDiversity
Today is International Mother Language Day! Celebrating linguistic diversity worldwide. Every mother tongue represents cultural identity and heritage. How will you honor yours? #MotherLanguageDay #LanguageDiversity #CareerBeacon