Global Voices · Citizen media stories about Language from January 2010

Lee Oisoo is a Korean novelist and artist who has been described as "an eccentric, a genius and a lunatic". When he set up a Twitter account last year he...

27 January 2010

Jamaica, Haiti: Making sense of it all

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Quick Reads · Caribbean

Japan: Website Localization

Written by Oiwan Lam · Quick Reads · East Asia

25 January 2010

Jamaica, Haiti: Using the Language

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Quick Reads · Caribbean

21 January 2010

Russia: Project Aims To Translate Popular Blogs Into Russian

Written by Alexey Sidorenko · Quick Reads · Eastern & Central Europe

Kenya: Kiswahili an optional subject

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · Quick Reads · Sub-Saharan Africa

19 January 2010

Japan: QT is a Variation of ReTweet

Written by Tomomi Sasaki · Quick Reads · East Asia

18 January 2010

Africa: Free Kiswahili synthetic voice for Freedom Fone

Written by Ndesanjo Macha · Quick Reads · Sub-Saharan Africa

17 January 2010

Trinidad & Tobago, Haiti: Aid

Written by Janine Mendes-Franco · Quick Reads · Caribbean

14 January 2010

Russia: Largest Political Community Online Removed And Restored

Written by Alexey Sidorenko · Eastern & Central Europe

The recent case of the most popular political online community demonstrated how easy it is to limit free expression on RuNet and revealed the willingness of online audience to defend...

13 January 2010

Egypt: English Loan Words

Written by Tarek Amr · Middle East & North Africa

"Egyptian" Arabised English is taking the Twittersphere by storm. Tarek Amr collects reactions from #EgyEnglish in this post which explains how bilingual Egyptians have included English words in their dialect.

9 January 2010

Taiwan: Teaching anthropology in Hualien

Written by David Reid · Quick Reads · East Asia

7 January 2010

China: Welcome back, Yeeyan

Written by Oiwan Lam · Quick Reads · East Asia

Morocco: First Indigenous TV Channel Launched

Written by Hisham Almiraat · Quick Reads · Middle East & North Africa

4 January 2010

Slovakia, Hungary: Happy New Year!

Written by Marietta Le · Eastern & Central Europe

The relations between the two neighboring countries, Slovakia and Hungary, went bad last year - but some Slovak and Hungarian citizens are trying to improve the situation by launching an...