What is your first language? Do you use it on social media or in other communications? From my latest post for Global Voices:
Even though more than 7,000 languages are spoken in the world, the Internet is dominated by a handful of them. For International Mother Language on 21 February 2015, Global Voices was part of an international community which promoted the campaign to Tweet in Your #MotherLanguage.
In Australia, it is estimated had between 300 and 400 Indigenous languages at the time of British colonisation in 1788. Of those remaining today, perhaps only a few dozen remain strong while many of the others are threatened.
Australians Shake Up Internet With Indigenous #MotherLanguage Tweets
No comments:
Post a Comment