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Re:Facebook open-sources a speech-recognition system and a m... by yorwba on Friday December 21, 2018 @04:14PM (#18736704)
Interesting to see Kabyle as the language with the third most validated hours at https://voice.mozilla.org/en/languages

Kabylia is a region in the north of Algeria mostly inhabited by Berber people who are bilingual in Algerian Arabic and Kabyle. In recent years, an independence movement has developed that emphasizes Kabyle over Arabic for reasons of internal cohesion. To confuse matters, there's also a pan-Berber movement denying the existence of a separate Kabyle language, classifying it as a dialect of Berber/Tamazight instead.

Those heated politics have led to a large number of Kabyles contributing to various linguistic corpus projects to gain visibility for their cause. E.g. trying to overtake Berber on https://tatoeba.org/stats/sentences_by_language (As far as I know, Mozilla's Common Voice shares data with the Tatoeba project.)

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