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May 29, 2013 03:33 pm GMT
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Cambridge University Linguists Use Twitter To Study How Welsh Language Use Is Changing
Another reason Twitter is awesome: Cambridge University linguists are using it to track how the usage of one of the U.K.'s Celtic languages, Welsh, is changing. Welsh is only spoken by around a sixth of the population of Wales but enough of those Welsh speakers are tweeting in Welsh to have allowed the researchers to compile a database of source material to use as a jumping off point.Original Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Techcrunch/~3/t2FdnKyt160/
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