March 2019 | PanLex

The Most Common Words in PanLex

March 7, 2019 || Benjamin Yang

Categories: Language and Linguistics, PanLex Database

Tags: Austronesian, Esperanto, linguistic diversity, loanword, mother, statistics, wanderword

The PanLex Database contains a large diversity of languages and dialects. This diversity allows us to explore interesting language facts, illuminated by casting PanLex’s wide net across the languages of the world. One question, originally suggested by our founder and director emeritus Dr. Jonathan Pool was: What’s the most common word in the PanLex Database? […]

Radically inclusive machine translation gets mainstream press

March 7, 2019 || Julie Anderson

Categories: Language and Linguistics, Machine Translation

Tags: machine translation, McCulloch, WIRED

In a recent article, linguist Gretchen McCulloch of WIRED magazine echoes PanLex’s series on radically inclusive machine translation. She notes that only a small number of languages have well-supported machine translation. Most of the world’s 7,000 languages have little or no machine translation support, including some with tens of millions of speakers. However, that could […]