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1 week ago | 
globalvoices.org | Georgia Popplewell |Gina Yauri |Mong Palatino |Abdulrosheed Fadipe
See all those languages? The Lingua project at Global Voices works to bring down barriers to understanding through translation. Learn more about Lingua »
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1 week ago | 
tolerance.ca | Abdulrosheed Fadipe
By Abdulrosheed Fadipe
Yilan is a Japanese-based creole language that was developed from colonial interactions between the speakers of the Indigenous Taiwanese Atayal language, Seediq language, and Japanese colonists during the period when Taiwan was under Japanese colonization (1895–1945). Read complete article© Global Voices
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1 month ago | 
es.globalvoices.org | Adesewa Olofinko |Mayra Heim |Abdulrosheed Fadipe |Tadeo Forcic
Cada vez hay más desplazados internos (personas desplazadas internamente que no han cruzado una frontera internacional para buscar seguridad) alrededor del mundo por conflictos, violencia, desastres ambientales e impactos negativos por la crisis climática. A finales de 2020, había de desplazados internos en 149 países. están en África subsahariana, y alrededor del 56% son niños.
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1 month ago | 
es.globalvoices.org | Abdulrosheed Fadipe |Tadeo Forcic |Jean de Dieu SOVON |Noelia Bravo
A medida que más aspectos clave de la vida cotidiana se digitalizan, más importante se vuelve la inclusión lingüística para garantizar el acceso equitativo al mundo digital. No obstante, muchos idiomas africanos carecen de recursos necesarios para desarrollar tecnologías lingüísticas y adaptarse a la digitalidad por completo. Aunque este no sea el caso de los dialectos más hablados —por lo general se tratan como el estándar de la lengua—, sí que perjudica a los dialectos menos comunes.
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2 months ago | 
globalvoices.org | Sydney Smith |Abdulrosheed Fadipe |Adesewa Olofinko |Candice Stewart
By Sydney Leigh SmithFemale Genital Mutilation (FGM) remains a significant issue in The Gambia, where, according to UNICEF, approximately 76 percent of women and girls aged 15–49 have undergone the practice. FGM refers to all procedures that involve the partial or total removal of the external female genitalia or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.
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2 months ago | 
tolerance.ca | Abdulrosheed Fadipe
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Jan 24, 2025 | 
globalvoices.org | Juan Mendez |Juan Méndez |Teodora C. Hasegan |Emma Lewis |Abdulrosheed Fadipe
This year, 2025, marks the 25th anniversary of International Mother Languages Day — a worldwide holiday to celebrate multilingualism and linguistic diversity. With over 7,100 languages spoken worldwide — and many of them not written and thus absent from text-based communication and social media — this date is essential in raising awareness about our world’s vast language diversity and the ways these languages can reflect and even shape cultures. UNESCO estimates that there are over today.
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Jan 16, 2025 | 
es.globalvoices.org | Abdulrosheed Fadipe
El 24 de diciembre, los seguidores de la religión tradicional tomaron las calles de Lagos y Osogbo en Nigeria, y de otras ciudades alrededor del mundo para protestar contra el histórico error que ha ocasionado discriminación religiosa por cientos de años. Se vio a los tradicionalistas en las calles con camisetas y carteles con inscripciones.
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
tolerance.ca | Abdulrosheed Fadipe
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Jan 7, 2025 | 
globalvoices.org | Abdulrosheed Fadipe
On December 24, traditional religion adherents took to the streets in Nigeria's capital Lagos, Osogbo, and cities across the world to protest against a historical error that has been causing religious discrimination for centuries. The traditionalists were seen on the streets, donning vests and holding placards and banners with inscriptions.
