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 How does digitization help preserve languages?


Foundation leading to projects to digitize Native American languages earlier this year, and a few other projects to digitize indigenous languages around the world.


English is the most common language you can find on the Internet. This is followed by Russian and Spanish, respectively. English is spoken by roughly 18% of the entire world, while Mandarin Chinese is spoken by around 14% of the global population making up only 1.4%.
It's worth exploring how these projects can help revive language with a major donation round from the National Humanities Foundation leading to projects to digitize Native American languages earlier this year, and a few other projects to digitize indigenous languages around the world.
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