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"𝑇ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒 𝑖𝑠 𝑎 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑖𝑚𝑝𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑠, 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡'𝑠 𝑖𝑟𝑟𝑒𝑣𝑒𝑟𝑠𝑖𝑏𝑙𝑒." 𝑵𝑨𝑵𝑰 𝑴𝑨: 𝑨 𝑫𝒆𝒇𝒆𝒏𝒄𝒆 𝒐𝒇 𝑫𝒊𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒔𝒊𝒕𝒚—review of documentary short "NANI MA" in @OrissaPOSTLive by Atri Prasad Rout. odishapostepaper.com/viewmap/192691…

"when a community elder cannot speak to anyone in her mother tongue..." We're screening "GYANI MAIYA" in Washington DC at 7:30 PM EST today. The film is a tribute to the late Gyani Maiya Sen from Nepal's Kusunda indigenous group. Details: lostorigins.gallery/gallery-events…

We're excited to see our @mozillafestival proposal being accepted. The session would include portions of 2022 documentary "NANI MA", backstory and learning from production. More about the film: theofdn.org/film/nanima

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ THE VOLUNTEER ARCHIVISTS It’s just as interesting to see [Srujanika] rediscover the history of publishing in Odisha, starting at the beginning of the nineteenth century. more in this fascinating review by @EAlphabets

If you are in Montreal and you are interested in Indigenous Languages, contact @ofdnorg for a film screening.

Gyani Maiya (1937–2020) was one of the last two speakers of the Kusunda language of Nepal. Her last wish was to see Kusunda children learn her dying language. We're in Montreal from Oct 5-7. Contact for film screening & discussion: theofdn.org/reach-out/ @ILDecade @_ELProject

@ILDecade @_ELProject Gyani Maiya's last wish is coming to life thanks to an education program led by her sister Kamala and researcher Uday Aaley. We're making the footage and the film available to the Kusunda community under a @creativecommons license. More: theofdn.org/film/gyani-mai…

[New paper] "Building a Public Domain Voice Database for Odia" doi.org/10.1145/348755… Context: I started a project for audio recordings of word pronunciations in Odia. The repository now has ~60,000 pronunciation files in Public Domain (2nd largest among South Asian languages).

🧵This is the story of a scientist couple who decided to dedicate their life to making science popular among children. They traveled across the country to meet like-minded enthusiasts...

Remember I had shared about the transition from legacy encoding to Unicode for Odia? Odia typefaces* are another important area that need to be discussed. So this thread is about typefaces. * Typefaces are often called fonts commonly but type designers would disagree with that!

💰 Should web content monetization be allowed for Indigenous languages? @birua123 @prasantahembram @subhapa are presenting research findings this @rightscon. Project supported by @GrantForTheWeb. 📅 June 9: rightscon.summit.tc/t/2022/events/… #RightsCon

“Should web content monetization be allowed for Indigenous languages?” @birua123 @prasantahembram and @subhapa are discussing in @rightscon this year. With that we plan to wrap up our research. meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Research:…

As we celebrate #MotherLanguageDay today to commemorate the vast contribution of many indigenous groups across the world to the environment, we remind ourselves the collective responsibility for the protection of indigenous languages and cultures. 🧵 recapping our recent updates

🧵 Recently, we released the entire repository of our 2019 Ho-language documentary "Mage Porob" on @internetarchive (raw footage, audio and images). youtu.be/TVBGKp6k_IY 🔗 archive.org/details/mage-p… #MotherLanguageDay #OpenAccess @creativecommons

We organized a panel this year at @intgovforum titled "Building the wiki-way for low-resource languages" w @risingvoices and learned from @barrioflores @AmritSufi @SardananIvanova @mahir256 about strategies and resources. The report is here: 🦄 #edit-group-report" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">intgovforum.org/en/content/igf… #IGF2021

@risingvoices @SardananIvanova @Wikimedia @mahir256 Whether or not Language Digital Activism is moving the needle around furthering access to linguistic rights and access to knowledge, there is a lot of anecdotal evidences but it is often harder to measure. — Eddie Avila @risingvoices #IGF2021

Today at the @intgovforum @igf_2021 Rising Voices members to organize a panel discussion at Internet Governance Forum about low-resource languages. community.globalvoices.org/2021/12/rising… moderated by @subhapa

🔔 We're excited to organize panel "Building the wiki-way for low-resource languages" w/ @risingvoices. Look forward to engaging language digital activists from Aftrica, Europe, Latin America and South Asia. 📅 Wed Dec. 8, 2021 (14:05 UTC) 🔗 intgovforum.org/en/content/igf… #IGF2021

We are excited to be included in the recent @UNESCO IYIL2019 Flagship Report "the International Year of Indigenous Languages: mobilizing the international community to preserve, revitalize and promote indigenous languages". More at unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0… @ILDecade

This article titled "The paradox of open: How to build a better internet" by Prof. Maya Dodd (@mayadodd) highlights many initiatives promoting @creativecommons and open culture. Thank you for featuring @OpenSpeaks and our work in India.