Small Programs and Languages

https://ratfactor.com/cards/pl-small

#HackerNews #SmallPrograms #SmallLanguages #CodingCommunity #TechTrends #SoftwareDevelopment

Good news: languages that are more widespread have a higher complexity. This means that underserved languages are more likely to be learned well using a smaller corpus, which could help a bit with the rich-get-richer problem of LLMs and existing corpora.

https://phys.org/news/2025-02-complex-languages-efficient-communication.html#google_vignette

#llm #smalllanguages #underrepresented #underserved

Browsing the Gutenberg bot, ran into this highly lyrical but slightly out there book of #Frisian poetry in #alliterative verse.

Maybe of interest to some of you @languagelovers

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/75044

#Frysk #Fryslan #Friesland #MinorityLanguages #SmallLanguages

Anyone who's been out sacrificing the local Reform UK gammon or other types of livestock, your sacrifices have appeased the #language deities, thank you so much!

In related news, my eldest has won first place in the spelling competition.

Here she receives a big ass trophy from the writer of the test, #Frisian children's book author Anne-Goaitske Breteler.

Cherish #bilingualism in children, my lovely people.

#SmallLanguages #MinorityLanguage #MinorityLanguages #Frysk #Fryslân #FryskeTaal

Please sacrifice all sheep, virgins or village idiots at hand at 3:00 p.m. CET for my eldest is to participate in the primary school Frisian dictation competition.

Offerje om 3 oere fan'e middei asteblyft alle skiep, jongfammen of doarpsgekkem dy't jimme foarhannen hawwe, want ús âldste docht mei oan it #Frysk diktee fan de basisskoallen.

#fryslân #fryskdiktee #frysketaal #minoritylanguages #minoritylanguage #SmallLanguages

Starting at 5pm (CET): #WONAGO lecture by Bodhisattva Kar “Hold Your Tongue: Towards a #ComparativeHistory of “#SmallLanguages” in #SouthernAfrica and #SouthAsia, 1850s–1930s”.

For last minute registration: https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/conferences-and-workshops/wonago-lecture-series

#GIGA & Universität Hamburg welcome Bodhisattva Kar (University of Cape Town) for next #WONAGO Lecture “Hold Your Tongue: Towards a #ComparativeHistory of #SmallLanguages in #SouthernAfrica & #SouthAsia, 1850s – 1930s.”

Register here for 18 January:
➡️https://www.giga-hamburg.de/en/events/conferences-and-workshops/wonago-lecture-series

Moderated by Diana M. Natermann.