[Foundation-l] What to do with moribund languages?

[Amir E. Aharoni]

2009/1/5 Milos Rancic <millosh at gmail.com>:
> 3. A language with ~1-10M speakers from Sub-Saharan Africa. Such
> language probably has a written form made by some missionaries during
> the past centuries (or a very similar language has a written form
> which may be used). However, the most of the population probably don't
> know to read and write. This is a kind of task where WMF should be
> connected with other global, regional or local educational
> initiatives. Such language should get all projects, but at the time
> when they are able to handle that. Preservation tasks may be useful,
> too.

I agree with all your points from this email, but especially with this one.

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