Celebrating African languages in digital spaces w/rotating acct where a different language activist shares their story. This week:
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African Language Digital Activism retweeted
8 Jul 2025
It was our pleasure to team up with @dagbanliwiki to support local language speakers curious about using digital platforms to promote the Dagbani language in digital spaces. Find out more on @Wikimedia diff blog:
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African Language Digital Activism retweeted
4 Dec 2024
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HIGA 2025 is just around the corner!
Have you applied yet, or do you know someone who might want to join this amazing event?
✨ Please watch and share this our HIGA2025 presentation video and help us reach more people passionate about minoritised languages revitalization
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The next Digital Humanities Colloquium will feature guest speaker, Francois Meyer, who will tackle the challenges of subword segmentation in Natural Language Processing (NLP) for the Nguni languages.
Register here: bit.ly/48BVMqn
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Calling South African languages digital activists! Together with partners @PukuBooks @SiyaMasuku & Bokone Bophirima Lit Focus Festival, we invite you to present or attend this online mtg celebrating South African linguistic diversity online bit.ly/languageactivismza
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African Language Digital Activism retweeted
27 Jul 2024
Ghanaian Languages Wikimedia Meetup happening now at Ghana Registered Nurses and Midwives Guest House Conference Hall in Northern Ghana,Tamale
@Wikimedia
@risingvoices
@Ghpidginwiki
@wikitongues
@DagaareWiki
@GureneWikimedia
@artandfeminism
@FanteCommunity
@Moore_Wikimedia
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African Language Digital Activism retweeted
The excitement continues in Tamale! 🎉 Check out our engaging sessions as we strengthen #ghanaianlanguages online. Let’s keep the momentum going and work together to preserve our linguistic heritage.
@dagbanliwiki
@FanteCommunity
@wikitongues
@openknowledgegh
@risingvoices
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African Language Digital Activism retweeted
28 Jun 2024
We are excited to be partnering with Ghanaian Languages Wikimedia Community for their upcoming Community Meetup 2024. We are working with them to offer a one-day workshop about language digital activism meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Ghan…
#GLWC2024
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African Language Digital Activism retweeted
"The sword devours now one and now another” means that in a war it's impossible to know who will be killed and who will survive. Nigerian Fulfulde has “the sword has no in-law,” molding it after a common Fulfulde saying ”death has no in-law.”
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African Language Digital Activism retweeted
9 May 2023
10 most populous Languages in Guinea which Languages Africa languagesafrica.com has professional resources in Translation & AI Data collection.
1.Fulfulde
2.Malinke
3.Susu
4.Kissi
5.Kpelle
6.Toma
7.Guerze
8.Maninka, Eastern
9.Maninka, Western
10.Loma
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African Language Digital Activism retweeted
10 Jun 2024
Rising Voices is pleased to be partnering with the Ghanaian Languages Wikimedia Community to offer a one-day in-person Indigenous language digital activism workshop in Tamale, Ghana on July 19th as part of the Ghanaian Wikimedia Languages Meet-Up.
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NOW OPEN! FIFAfrica24 Call for Session Proposals and Travel Support Applications @cipesaug
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SILICON Practitioners Program Application 2024 - Awards of up to $7,000 will be granted for advancing one or more Digitally Disadvantaged Language, living or historic, with projects to be completed virtually. Deadline June 21, 2024 docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F…
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African Language Digital Activism retweeted
🚀 Exciting News Alert! Happening today...
You can join us this afternoon from 3pm for our discussion on Generative AI in Africa.
Register via bit.ly/gdss-ai-webinar
#AI #DLI2024 #IndabaXGhana24 #GDSS24 #GhanaNLP #NLP
#3isummit
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African Language Digital Activism retweeted
26 Apr 2024
Plan early and sign up for this important session before all the spots are taken @GhanaNLP - signup link in poster. See you at the @ghdatascience Indabax summit in a couple weeks
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[Job Opportunity] @GlobalVoices seeks a Lingua Director, to oversee multilingual projects and initiatives. Deadline to apply April 26, 2024
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African Language Digital Activism retweeted
After the government's recent decision to reopen schools, we have resumed our Eduwiki training at Eloi secondary school. Our focus is on introducing students to open knowledge platforms such as Wikimedia and kiwix.
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African Language Digital Activism retweeted
6 Mar 2024
Calling all Indigenous and minoritized language content creators! Our 2024 #LanguageLodge workshop series begins March 12. This free six-week program will help you co-create media with language communities around the world. Learn more: s.si.edu/3Iue9kw #CulturalVitality
ALT A woman at a computer is looking at images of educational language content with a colorful mural in the background.
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African Language Digital Activism retweeted
We've already uploaded 518 photos to our campaign, showcasing our rich heritage. To view them, simply click on this link commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/C…. We also encourage you to contribute to the campaign by sharing photos that portray our heritage.
@Wikimedia
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Check out “Talongokeno,” (@talongokeno) a blog about two variants of the Kikongo language from the Republic of the Congo. Follow their social media accounts on TikTok, X, and Instagram and find out more here:
rising.globalvoices.org/lang…
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