AI Often Leaves Out Minority Languages, but Some Communities Are Turning It Into a Lifeline
AI works best in majority languages, but communities are using it to build their own language tools. We look at Vavanagi for Hula in Papua New Guinea, Tulun for Tetun health translation in Timor-Leste and a Dinka–English dictionary from South Sudan: how they work, what they have produced for almost no money, and where the optimism needs caution.
