Computers Speaking Icelandic Could Save the Language From 'Stafrænn Dauði' (T... - 0 views
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rorykilmer21 on 24 May 21The publication provides insight into how people in Iceland are recording their language to help keep it alive. Icelandic is suffering from something known around the world as "digital minoritization", where the overwhelming amount of online language use is in a different language (ex. English worldwide, pushing out smaller minority languages). It stresses the importance of the language to the country's identity and how the recordings will help keep the history of the country alive today.