A staggering 21 European languages are facing ‘digital extinction’, according to a new study.
Researchers from the University of Manchester’s National Centre for Text Mining (NaCTeM) and others from across the continent found that many languages struggle to be recognised in the digital world, on spelling and grammar checkers, on voice activated services such as Siri on the iPhone and automatic translation systems.
Icelandic, Latvian, Lithuanian and Maltese are at the highest risk of disappearing, while other languages such as Bulgarian, Greek, Hungarian and Polish are also at risk.
Read more about this story at the National Centre for Text Mining and in The Huffington Post.
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