#tigrinya — Public Fediverse posts

Just finished setting up the #weblate #translation pipeline for the #storySeedLibrary at https://translate.codeberg.org/projects/story-seed-library/ !

It still has some rough edges, but if anyone is interested in translating some #solarpunk #art and #writing , please let me know!

We currently support 8 languages:

#english
#spanish
#french
#italian
#german
#polish
#ukrainian
#tigrinya

But would love to add #hindi and #arabic as well!

#futurism #climate #climateChange #hope #languages

Does your organisation work with #language #data in #Arabic, #Tagalog, #signLanguage, #Kannada, #Tamil, #Burmese, #Croatian, #Tigrinya, #Vietnamese, #Thai, #Pashto, #Uzbek, #German, #French or #Kurdish?

The @mozilladatacollective has an open #CfP to fund the uplift or creation of datasets in this space that focus on dialogic interaction, multimodal - so video or speech paired with transcription, or which focus on the intersectionality of under-represented contexts or domains.

Is that your organisation?

https://community.mozilladatacollective.com/call-for-proposals-mdc-is-commissioning-mission-aligned-datasets/

SBS Tigrinya – ኤስ.ቢ.ኤስ ትግርኛ
Independent news and stories connecting you to life in Australia and Tigrinya-speaking Australians...

Great Australian Pods Podcast Directory: https://www.greataustralianpods.com/sbs-tigrinya/

#GreatAusPods #AusPods #Podcast #Podcasts #Podcasting #Podcasters #Australia #News #CurrentAffairs #Culture #Identity #Daily #Language #Learning #Diversity #Tigrinya

The #storySeedLibrary is now available in #Tigrinya !

https://storyseedlibrary.org/ti/art/

We got a translation of the all of the illustrations available, but so far I managed to upload only the first 45.

Huge thanks to Nadait Gebremedhen, MD for her work!

#Solarpunk #HopePunk #futurism #art #illustration #climate #climateChange

This great song is the one we danced to at my Eritrean student's wedding anniversary party. It shows the singer back in the 1970s, flirting with a girl, then they're married and she's pregnant, and later the baby's born, a little girl, and later still they're an old couple and the singer (with his hair grayed up) is holding is grandson.

The chorus, my student told me, is singing, "one wife, one wife." #Eritrea #Tigrinya https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6vSKh9hiBU

Bit of a posting spree this week, but I’m looking for feedback on something that’s been bothering me for several years now.

The terms Ethiosemitic, Ethio-Semitic and so forth have a big downside: they tend to (understandably!) trigger Eritreans, who make up a considerable share of the people speaking these languages. Hence, it would be nice if we could settle on an alternative. Afro-Semitic sounds kind of cool, but could be misinterpreted as including North African, Egyptian, and Sudanese Arabic, maybe even Punic. Something deriving from the Horn of Africa would be more precise, but I don’t see any elegant way to turn that into a single adjective. So my leading candidate is Abyssinian.

Pros:

• based on an endonym, Habesha
• used both in Antiquity and in the present
• unquestionably refers to speakers of the three biggest/most studied languages in this group: Ge’ez, Amharic, Tigrinya
• covers languages from both Ethiopia and Eritrea and from both main linguistic groups (South and North/non-South if North isn’t a valid category by itself)
• already an existing English word
• some history of linguistic usage
• not literally the same word as Habesha so there’s some liberty to use it differently

Cons:

• sounds kind of old-fashioned and colonial to me (maybe unrightfully so)
• often limited to predominantly Christian groups (Amharic and Tigrinya speakers), may exclude predominantly Muslim groups (Tigre, Harari speakers); isolated (mostly Christian) Gurage speakers seem like an edge case from what I can find online
• may be a loaded term given recent ethnic tensions in Ethiopia

So, what do you think? Is it worth going back to an outdated term in an attempt to make some people feel included and stop them from getting mad, with the risk of excluding another group of people and making them mad?1 I would especially love to hear from anyone with a relevant ethnic background—Habesha, Ethiosemitic speakers, what have you—but all input is very welcome.

1. But note that the biggest relevant non-Habesha group, Tigre speakers, are also excluded by Ethiosemitic. ↩︎

https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/2024/08/08/ethiosemitic-or-abyssinian/

#Amharic #GeEz #Gurage #linguistics #Tigre #Tigrinya

Kijk voor deze kinderboekentip op https://lekkerlezen.nu.
Ella Egel is weg – Joke de Jonge
Een prentenleesboek, speciaal voor jonge nieuwkomers.
https://lekkerlezen.nu/ella-egel-is-weg-joke-de-jonge/
#Prentenboek #4 #6 #Leesboek #Arabisch #Bulgaars #dieren #egel #Engels #Farsi #Fries #Hongaars #Ivriet #nieuwkomers #NT2 #Oekraens #Pools #Portugees #Russisch #talen #Tigrinya #Turks #VreemdeTalen
De tips komen van verschillende kinderboekenmakers.

Following Turkey's approval of its integration into #NATO, #Sweden ends the #Kurdish broadcast of its public radio. #Russian and #Tigrinya broadcasts will also be canceled. Another example of the criminalization of #Kurds in #Europe and their further exclusion in order to appease the Turkish government.

https://www.rudaw.net/english/world/01022024

Earlier this year, I had two fun conversations with the team of the then newly-founded Kedem YouTube channel, which popularizes scholarship on the Ancient Near East and the Hebrew Bible. The first video was published yesterday. We talk about the concept of a language family, what languages constitute the Semitic language family, where Semitic comes from geographically and linguistically, how we can reconstruct earlier ancestors of the attested languages, and a few things this kind of reconstruction tells us about Proto-Semitic.

Stay posted for my second video with this channel, to be released sometime next year, on the different modern and—especially—ancient pronunciations of Biblical Hebrew.

https://bnuyaminim.wordpress.com/2023/12/30/video-intro-to-the-semitic-language-family/

#Afroasiatic #Akkadian #Amharic #AncientSouthArabian #Arabic #Aramaic #Beja #Berber #Chadic #Cushitic #Egyptian #GeEz #Hebrew #linguistics #Moabite #ModernSouthArabian #news #Omotic #Phoenician #ProtoSemitic #Tigrinya #Ugaritic

💬 HornChat is a chatbot built in cooperation with #LLM and a Translation Systems to address the linguistic barriers of low-resourced languages in LLMs. Used #OpenAI and Lesan #AI APIs. Current version: #Tigrinya and #Amharic only.
#ChatGPT #Africa
https://horn-chat.vercel.app/it

"Se chiedi a #ChatGPT in #Tigrinya o in #Amarico le domande più semplici e più frequenti, ti dà un senso incomprensibile, un mix di Tigrinya e Amarico, o anche parole inventate. Chatbot come ChatGPT sono completamente rotti o inutili per queste lingue. La maggior parte dei dati che li alimenta sono fondamentalmente dati internet, non ci sono abbastanza dati online per queste lingue. Così rende ancora più urgente creare tecnologie specifiche" Asmelash Teka Hadgu #Etiopia 🇪🇹 https://restofworld.org/2023/3-minutes-with-asmelash-teka-hadgu/

Joining the #migration and spending time listening and learning to established users of this site for a while. #refugeeswelcome #Refugees #permaculture #EndDetention #peace #intercultural_dialogue #unesco #languages #culture #integration #immigration #Scotland #gaidhlig #knitting #Allotment #life #IonaCommunity #liberationtheology #Decoloniality #justice #academia #joinaunion #ucu #poetry #art #deutsch #francais #portugues #Tigrinya

Machine Translation Benchmark Dataset for Languages in the Horn of Africa https://lesan.ai/benchmark

Lesan AI has just published their first dataset on GitHub with data for #Amharic, #Oromo, #Somali, #Tigrinya and #Afar.

#HornMT #Translation #LanguageJustice

Ihr kennt Besucher:innen aus dem Ausland oder #Flüchtlinge, die gerne bei uns #Fahrrad fahren möchten, sich aber bezüglich der #Verkehrsregeln nicht sicher sind?

Hier findet ihr Hilfestellung in mehreren Sprachen (bereitgestellt vom ADFC):

https://www.uni-hohenheim.de/index.php?id=148333#jfmulticontent_c498346-4

#Mobilität
#Albanisch
#Arabisch
#Deutsch
#Englisch
#Farsi
#Französisch
#Italienisch
#Kurdisch
#Russisch
#Spanisch
#Tigrinya
#Türkisch