Competencies
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Digital Vitality
Knowledge of digitization of minority languages.
Promoting a language digitally is important to its use and survival.
Demonstrates the ability to inform and assist communities in the digitization of their language.
Growth Activities
The following activities have been identified to achieve comptency in Digital Vitality in levels from Learner to Expert.
Learn how to Identify and collect the data needed to add a language to the Common Locale Data Repository (CLDR).
Help language community users to codify the features of their language and locale for representation digitally.
Assist language teams to add their language to the Common Locale Data Repository. Promote sustainable Unicode orthographies.
Assist teams to create localized tools for their languages. This could include vernacular websites, spelling and grammar checkers and Wikipedia.
Assist teams with well-developed orthographies and a wide variety of text resources to create resources such as morphologically-aware spell checkers, text-to-speech, parsers, machine translation, and voice recognition.