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1 month 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 month ago | 
globalvoices.org | Mong Palatino |Abdulrosheed Fadipe |Mi historia |Beatrice Twentyman
Despite being forced into exile in 2018, dissident blogger Nguyen Ngoc Nhu Quynh continues to write about social justice and human rights issues concerning Vietnam. More popularly known as Me Nam or “Mother Mushroom,” she gained recognition for her posts on environmental pollution and police abuse. She was arrested in October 2016 and subjected to eight months of solitary confinement before being sentenced to ten years in prison in June 2017.
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1 month 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 | 
globalvoices.org | Abdulrosheed Fadipe |Mong Palatino |Mi historia |Beatrice Twentyman
Taiwan is one of the most linguistically diverse countries in the world. A total of 26 languages are spoken on the island, which includes Mandarin Chinese, the official language, Cantonese, English, Japanese, and 22 Indigenous languages. Fourteen of these indigenous languages are endangered. Yilan Creole is one of the 14 endangered Indigenous languages in Taiwan.
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2 months 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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2 months 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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Mar 8, 2025 | 
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.
