Comment by District5524

Comment by District5524 7 hours ago

3 replies

I agree that this is a very exciting and really crucial research and I'm glad there is funding for this. But it's very strange that Hungarian is marked as "highly endangered" at https://aidemos.atmeta.com/omnilingualasr/language-globe Highly endangered is supposed to mean "The language is used by grandparents and older generations; while the parent generation may still understand the language, they typically do not speak it to children or among themselves." Then why is Hungarian marked as such? Obviously not true with 14 million active speakers and being the 20th in terms of the most language resources published on the Internet. Additionally, the feedback mechanism seems also broken ("There was an error submitting your feedback. Please try again.")

internet_points 7 hours ago

Finnish: "safe" – sounds right

South Estonian: "vulnerable" – sure, yeah

Karelian: "endangered" – seems correct

Swedish: also "endangered" – wat

Ghari (12k speakers): "safe" – :facepalm:

Are these really language-vulnerability ratings or did they just make a mapping from Trump's tariff rates?

  • yorwba 4 hours ago

    The Ethnologue link in footnote 7 of the paper has utm_source=chatgpt.com at the end, so I suspect whoever was tasked with listing languages and determining their status thought this wasn't important enough to do it themselves and just had ChatGPT give them a list. FWIW, Ethnologue does say that Ghari is "Stable" https://www.ethnologue.com/language/gri/ Meanwhile Swedish is "Institutional," the highest possible level of vitality https://www.ethnologue.com/language/swe/

  • District5524 6 hours ago

    My new favourite mistake is Malayalam being highly endangered...