Amir E. AharoniJan 19
What makes me quite sad, but completely unsurprised, is that in all these discussions of #Greenland, Denmark is in the center, which is not entirely incorrect formally, but quite wrong emotionally. The culture and the language of the native Inuit people are barely ever mentioned. I never visited Greenland (perhaps I should do it ASAP), but from what I read about it, the main spoken language there is Geenlandic, also known as Kalallisut (even if Danish has an important place, too).
Show threadAmir E. AharoniJan 19

The full article:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/2026/01/trump-letter-to-norway/685676/?gift=Gg4tF-Gi_jvTqsB45lN-8nzcxUNMUn83YP2XTTcGZIs&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

Trump’s Letter to Norway Should Be the Last Straw

Will Republicans in Congress ever step in?

The Atlantic
Show threadAmir E. AharoniJan 19
Oh, and I should also mention that it makes me incredibly sad that even though this language is very much alive and used in media and education in #Greenland, the Greenlandic-language Wikipedia was not successful and was eventually closed. I tried to contact relevant people, and I'd invest my own effort in it if there were native speakers who would want to work on it, but I never managed to find anyone. However, it's not doomed!
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@aharoni

It died because of lacking a community of native speakers who would create and maintain the #Greenlandic #Wikipedia. It came out that a huge part of articles were written in some kind of fantasy language, later by AI.

https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Kurier/Ausgabe_9_2024#KI%20und%20die%20Macht%20%C3%BCber%20die%20eigene%20Sprache

In german, written by the only (ex-)Admin of Greenlandic Wikipedia, who is german.

The author says, that a large amount of AI-written Wikipedia-articles coming over language with a small base of written texts could alter the natural language.

Wikipedia:Kurier/Ausgabe 9 2024 – Wikipedia

Jan 19 at 10:14pmWeb
Show threadAmir E. AharoniJan 19

@Drahreg01 I know, I'm in the Language Committee, which makes the decisions about opening and closing wikis in different languages. This decision was particularly painful, and I'll be enormously happy to reverse it if people who actually know the language come along and write real articles.

I've been helping people to write in wikis in smaller languages for about twenty years, and some of them became quite successful. I'm willing to help this one as much as I can, too, of course.