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New York, United States | AFP | Google on Wednesday said it wanted to develop artificial intelligence using the world’s one thousand most spoken languages as tech giants compete to dominate the internet’s next battleground. Data is crucial to advances in AI, and Google and its big tech rivals want to tap information to help make products perform better and be more available to the widest possible audience. “Imagine a new internet user in Africa […]
by Louis BAUDOIN WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — “English is not my first language,” writes Nakia Smith on her TikTok account, although the 22-year-old grew up in Texas. The young African American woman has been deaf since birth, and uses her large online following to promote her little-known dialect: Black American Sign Language. In her video clips, she tells her 400,000 followers about the differences between her language and the standard American Sign Language (ASL). […]
(Eagle News) — Tanging ang mga estudyanteng nasa Grade 7 hanggang Grade 12 na may “mastery” sa English at Filipino languages ang papayagang makapag-aral ng Korean language. Ito ang nilinaw ni Education Undersecretary Annalyn Sevilla. Paliwanag ni Sevilla, sampung public schools sa Metro Manila lamang ang kanilang pinayagan na magturo ng Korean language ngayong semestre. Ang mga eskuwelahan na pinayagang magturo ng DepEd ngayong semestre ay ang mga sumusunod: Las Piñas National High School Jose […]
(Eagle News) — Hindi dapat na makumpromiso ang kaalaman ng mga estudyante ang tungkol sa kanilang pinagmulan habang kanilang pinalalago ang pagiging global citizen. Ayon kay Education Secretary Leonor Briones, mahalaga na hindi dapat maging hadlang ang pagtuturo ng karunungan sa mga kabataan upang mapalago ang kanilang pagiging global citizen. Aniya, dapat na hindi mawala sa isipan ng mga mag-aaral ang lokal na lenguwahe, kasaysayan, kultura at iba pang pagkakakilanlan habang sila ay tinuturuan ng […]
(Eagle News) — Sa pag-aaral ng United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) isang wika sa buong mundo ang namamatay sa bawat dalawang taon. Sa Pilipinas, may ilang wika ang itinuturing na rin na endangered o nanganganib na ring na mawala. Lumabas sa pagsusuri ng Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF) na marami sa mga katutubong wika sa bansa ang hindi na halos ginagamit ng isang partikular na grupo. Dumagat Binanggit ni National Artist For […]
(Eagle News) – The President does not promote violence against women. Presidential Spokesperson Harry Roque emphasized this during a press briefing at the Eduardo Cojuangco National Vocational High School in Paniqui, Tarlac on Friday, March 2, 2018. Roque’s statement came in the wake of women’s groups claims the Chief Executive used “offensive language” that shows his “misogynous character.” Roque stressed that President Duterte should not be judged by his words but by his actions. “Palabiro […]
MIAMI, United States (AFP) — Baby bats learn language from peers in their colony, and will adopt the group’s dialect, or accent, instead of their mother’s, researchers said Tuesday. The difference is similar to speaking with a London accent versus a Scottish accent, said the report in the journal PLOS Biology. The findings shed new light on crowd-learning of language, a skill thought to belong to mainly to humans and just a few other mammals. […]
(Eagle News) — Lodi para sa salitang idol, petmalu para sa salitang malupit, werpa na ibig sabihin ay power at orb na ang ibig sabihin ay bro. Ilan lamang yan sa mga binaligtad na salita na patok ngayon sa mga millennial at gamit na gamit sa social media. Kaya minsan, may ilan ang mapapakamot ng ulo kung saan ba galing at sino ang nagpasimula ng mga salitang ito. Para sa Komisyon sa Wikang Filipino (KWF), […]
YAOUNDE, Cameroon (AFP) — Authorities in an English-speaking region in southwestern Cameroon on Thursday announced temporary curbs on travel and public meetings, adding to a curfew imposed in the northwest after protests by the country’s anglophone minority. The steps were announced ahead of what is expected to be a symbolic declaration of independence by Cameroon’s English speakers on Sunday. A fifth of the 22 million people in the francophone-majority West African state is English-speaking — a legacy of […]
by Roberto CORTIJO Agence France Presse LIMA, Peru (AFP) — Amadeo Garcia has no one left to talk to in his mother tongue, Taushiro. Neither does Pablo Andrade, the last living speaker of Resigaro. The two indigenous languages are among 17 that are critically endangered in Peru, where modern life’s advance into the isolated Amazon basin region has wiped out many native peoples’ way of life, and their languages along with it. Garcia, 67, is […]
by Delil Souleiman Agence France Presse QAMISHLI, Syria (AFP) — Abdo Shehu sits in an office in Kurdish-majority Qamishli in northeast Syria, surrounded by copies of the first Western novel available in the city in his own language. The novel is “Snow” by French writer Maxence Fermine, the first fruits of a new project to translate international works of literature into a language that was effectively banned in Syria until recently. The 29-year-old is working […]
SANJIAZI, China (AFP) – by Tom HANCOCK It was the language of China’s last imperial dynasty which ruled a vast kingdom for nearly three centuries. But 71-year-old Ji Jinlu is among only a handful of native Manchu speakers left. Traders and farmers from what are now the borders of China and Korea, the Manchus took advantage of a crumbling Ming state and swept south in the 1600s to establish their own Qing Dynasty. Manchu became the court […]
