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Digital: what places for African languages ​​on the Internet?

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African languages, poor relation of digital and social networks?

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By: Pascal Paradou Follow

Since May 2022, ten new African languages ​​have been added to Google translate.

But these remain however little present in the digital world…

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Guests 

- Sinatou Saka, journalist for France Médias Monde, member of the IDEMI Africa collective, a

collective whose goal is to make African languages ​​more visible on the web.

- Martine Vanhove,

Research Director

at

LLACAN, (Language, Languages ​​and Cultures of Africa Laboratory) attached to the CNRS

- 

Bonaventure Dossou

,

 researcher in Artificial Intelligence on NLP (automatic language processing) applied to African languages.

And the column by Déborah Gros from

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“It's class!

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