A language dies every 2 weeks. Can AI save them?

In today's episode, I visit Utica, one of the most linguistically diverse cities in the country. But half of the languages will go extinct by the end of the century. Can AI save them?
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[@Canada-zo9qe]

Miskito language! Yay. The Miskito people in nicaragua has been resisting the dictatorship with their own Miskito-speaking political party Yatama. The Nicaraguan government refused to make propaganda in Miskito and therefore the spread of the dictatorship towards the coast has been lesser, also the government support.

[@Lov_chayeong]

misikito languuage is also i honduras, my contry

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This channel has all the makings of a big subscriber base, feels like I've stumbled upon something before it becomes a lot more popular

[@Smile200-z4y]

Same

[@DigitalFootprintShow]

Thank you! I definitely plan on growing the channel to educate even more people about these kinds of topics!

[@Strutsiina]

Wow I didn't realize you're a small channel before opening the comments. Awesome quality video, keep it up!

[@DigitalFootprintShow]

Thanks for the kind words!

[@qrsx66]

If all AI can do is give you the name of a banana in Bambara or Lanna, that won't be enough. That's not acquiring a language.

[@elihinze3161]

It does and it will. I think preserving languages with AI is mostly to help future descendants feel a connection to their past, as well as to preserve the cultural heritage built into the language's words, idioms, etc.

[@AN-jz3kf]

From their perspective, becoming bilingual (native language that's endangered + widely spoken language) only to retain the original language for the sake of keeping it alive must be tedious for busy workers that most people tend to be. For them it might not be worth the effort of perpetuating the original tongue if there's nobody left to communicate in it. And then you have people being FORCED to adopt the new language and that's what I have a problem with (countless examples, most well known being the Uyghurs in Xinjiang).

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[@DigitalFootprintShow]

Wow, thank you so much for these kind words! The support honestly means a lot.

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[@JJustMax]

Larger languages are good to be dominant, cuz many people can understand each other

[@alexandratapia1275]

Great video; really nice editing, information, research, and digestibility. Found the concluding message really valuable!

[@DigitalFootprintShow]

Thank you!

[@justincooper4422]

Totally agree! Fantastic video!

[@elihinze3161]

This would actually be an amazing use of AI! It'd be great to see these languages be preserved for future generations.

[@IBreatheSmog]

⁠​⁠​⁠I really loved this video, but I feel I should let you know that the grammatical gender study you mentioned with the bridges is not reliable. First off, the study was never fully published, and there have been no other studies (AFAIK) that reliably replicated its results. I also think its methodology is flawed because the masculine and feminine “genders” in languages like Spanish and German aren’t really genders, they’re more just categories, but that’s a more subjective take.

[@julianodportela]

Great video, congrats!!

[@DigitalFootprintShow]

Thanks!

[@thelibyanplzcomeback]

4:51 English-speakers be like... "long?"

[@4marra]

loved this video, in pama nyungan languages there is no fricatives, guugu yimithirr is pronounced with a dental ṯ, my half brother is gugu yalanji and our mother is wayilwan, very different languages and senses of direction

[@DigitalFootprintShow]

Noted! I tried to find accurate pronunciations for all the languages but heard different ones everywhere. Very cool to learn about aboriginal languages, they’re so unique but so under researched

[@raam1666]

Very interesting to study such primitive languages

[@4marra]

@@raam1666 well just two generations ago my family still spoke these languages, but it was illegal to speak them in my state, and so i decided to learn them myself since it was lost with that generation

[@nelsonjanusson7278]

it could definitely be a part of it! but a language is extinct when it has no speakers, we need to cultivate speakers of these languages or our knowledge of them will be of very little use. we know how to speak latin but it is still a dead language.

[@reidborder6326]

Really great video, this channel has all the makings of something big!

[@DigitalFootprintShow]

Thanks! Stay tuned for more videos like this coming next week!

[@Xandercorp]

I'm surprized you didn't tie it in with the idea of efficiency and ultimately, economy which dictates the debit of pop culture material a certain nation has. Also, ChatGPT speaks many languages, I showed my mom and she wasn't that impressed until I had it write in the style of a well known native author. :)

[@artemis6931]

underrated, this is a good idea!

[@JJustMax]

We dont need to save something out of use

[@litinup]

Learning a language can make you see the world in a completely different perspective This applies to every single one of them you can learn so much from it

[@robinharwood5044]

@@litinup can you give a few examples?

[@amtojsidhu]

Great video :)

[@applejuicetoons5718]

steamed hams

[@SaltyRamen.]

why not let the language die. What use it it? archive it and move on

[@ethonlee5909]

because people care about history and culture, and for many people it is a source of identity

[@alexanderwerewitch]

"Why not let everything die, end time, end life, whats its real value"

[@markus-ks9sf]

Why live if you're going to die anyway? Follow your own advice😂

[@007kingifrit]

but that's good, it means less language barriers, more unification. i hope in the future only english is left

[@Syumza]

This tells that you are ignorant monolingual. Languages are cultures, so if other languages die that means less culture and the world is not as diverse and unique. And that just sounds depressing.

[@belstar1128]

that will never happen

[@007kingifrit]

@@belstar1128 technology makes the world smaller ever year

[@tinfoilhatmaniac6924]

Having a monolingual world would cheapen the cultures and identities of thousands of people all over the world. I don't want an eventuall American-ish monoculture all over the world

[@bentohue6296]

4:51 this is not true bro

[@DigitalFootprintShow]

I'm not a native speaker of German or Spanish so I have no way to confirm personally, but a classic study in psychology by Lera Boroditsky and Lauren Schmidt proved this phenomenon. You can read more into it here: lera.ucsd.edu/papers/gender.pdf

[@belstar1128]

no because they don't have enough data for most of these language ai does a bad job with most languages apart from English French German Spanish Japanese mandarin .some of these languages were never used online. even some languages with big populations like Fulani have almost no text online only the bible and a handful of Wikipedia articles but a lot of videos were people speak it but the title is in another language .but ai mostly relies on text now imagine trying to use it with Australian aboriginal languages with 10 speakers .

[@yuriythebest]

Even though I speak several languages, I don't think people should be forced to learn their indigenous language - after all, what's preventing children from learning the languages of their tribe/community/etc? Chances are, they just don't want to cause there is no point and they'd rather be playing call of duty or whatever it is kids do these days. Luckily, as you described, what will happen is that people will just be watching tiktoks/youtube while AI's will be stuck on some server forced to talk in extinct languages.

[@ronanbakker]

My language Dutch is dying out among my age group, I'm 28. With older people I speak it still but with younger I don't. Is that a loss?

[@michaelwatkins8710]

Do you speak English with other young Dutch people now?

[@eddid.1835]

Almost 200 subs. Lets goooo!!!! Keep it up man, quality stuff.

[@DigitalFootprintShow]

Thanks!!! Welcome to the Before 200 club!

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