#lostlanguages — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #lostlanguages, aggregated by home.social.
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What happens when you put #AI to work deciphering #lostlanguages?
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/what-happens-when-you-put-ai-to-work-deciphering-lost-languages/
AI is a real accelerant, able to compress years of manual cross-referencing into mere minutes and let more people attempt these problems than institutional resources ever allowed.
But it doesn’t remove the 2 ingredients that decipherment has always required. One is a genuine comparative anchor. The other is rigorous human review, to tell a real breakthrough from an appealing coincidence #langueetrusque -
What happens when you put #AI to work deciphering #lostlanguages?
https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/07/what-happens-when-you-put-ai-to-work-deciphering-lost-languages/
AI is a real accelerant, able to compress years of manual cross-referencing into mere minutes and let more people attempt these problems than institutional resources ever allowed.
But it doesn’t remove the 2 ingredients that decipherment has always required. One is a genuine comparative anchor. The other is rigorous human review, to tell a real breakthrough from an appealing coincidence #langueetrusque -
Tired of Rome taking up all the oxygen in classical discourse?
May I suggest Etruria — a sophisticated, enigmatic pre-Roman civilization whose art, religion, and urban planning heavily influenced the empire that overshadowed it.
The language? Still largely undeciphered. The vibe? Immaculate.
Credit to The Histories on YouTube — one of the most thoughtful and engaging voices in history content right now.
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Recovering priceless audio and lost languages from old decaying tapes — https://theconversation.com/how-were-recovering-priceless-audio-and-lost-languages-from-old-decaying-tapes-248116
#HackerNews #AudioRecovery #LostLanguages #CulturalHeritage #TapeRestoration #AudioPreservation -
[Four #native #languages spoken by #tribes in #Sarawak are now #extinct according to the national literary & cultural agency Dewan Bahasa dan Pustaka.
Sarawak director, Abang Haliman Abang Julai, said that according to #researchers the #Seru , #Pegu , #Bliun & #Lelak languages were now no longer in use.]#linguistics #IndigenousLanguage #NativeLanguage #TribalLanguage #LanguagePreservation #LostLanguages #Malaysia #AsianMastodon #Asian #GlobalSouth #LostCulture #Asia