On the Cree-
I can put this question out in the next newsletter of the *Society for the
Study of the Indigenous Languages of the Americas*. One might contact:
Arok Wolvengrey at the First Nations University of Canada.
Once a language has reached a point at which local speakers cannot agree on
the meaning of its writing system, or the language never acquired an
accepted and integrated writing system, challenges abound for getting a
growing encyclopedia going in the language.
Linguists do a great job of understanding indigenous languages: use,
disuse, structure, and endangerment, but we need to try to bridge the gap
between linguists' knowledge and tech-savvy, open-source communities.
Karen
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All,
The UK has a few smaller languages - Welsh, Scots, Gaelic and others. We've
not done much outreach with these before, but recently Robin Owain and
others of the Welsh Wikipedia - Wicipedia Cymraeg (
http://cy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hafan) - has run some events with funding
from
WMUK. A breakdown of the largest event at the National Eisteddfod is at
http://uk.wikimedia.org/wiki/Visit_report_-_National_Eisteddfod_8_Aug_2012
.
Hope this is interesting for you all!
Richard Symonds
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