Getting entries approved for minority languages

[Mark Davis ☕️]

> this sort of situation seems very relevant to a lot of languages in
Africa, and more broadly, a lot of "less-resourced" and less widely spoken
languages worldwide.

Yes, it is; and we do want to encourage the development of resources for
these languages, which can involve a somewhat different process than for
"short-tail" languages.

> BTW, we lack a good term for these languages, but "long tail" languages
seems useful.

We've started using that, because it is difficult to come up with another
good, short, descriptive name.




Mark <https://google.com/+MarkDavis>

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On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 10:32 AM, <dzo at bisharat.net> wrote:

> I haven't been watching locale issues closely for a while, but this sort
> of situation seems very relevant to a lot of languages in Africa, and more
> broadly, a lot of "less-resourced" and less widely spoken languages
> worldwide.
>
> BTW, we lack a good term for these languages, but "long tail" languages
> seems useful.
>
> Don Osborn
>
>
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