A number of European languages could eventually vanish from the Internet, suggests a new study conducted by European nonprofit META-NET. Languages such as Icelandic, Latvian and Lithuanian don’t have enough speakers to gain traction as popular languages on the Web. The report goes so far as to say that German, Italian, Spanish and French could be at risk, too, because of a dearth of resources to power translation tools, speech-to-text technology and voice-controlled devices.
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Report: The Internet Is a Language Killer
Posted by: David Vranicar September 27, 2012 09:22 AMA number of European languages could eventually vanish from the Internet, suggests a new study conducted by European nonprofit META-NET. Languages such as Icelandic, Latvian and Lithuanian don’t have enough speakers to gain traction as popular languages on the Web. The report goes so far as to say that German, Italian, Spanish and French could be at risk, too, because of a dearth of resources to power translation tools, speech-to-text technology and voice-controlled devices.