The Digital Multilingualism Project (DLDP) has launched the first phase of the study on the digital needs of four EU retail languages: Basque, Breton, Karelian and Sardines.

In the coming weeks, the DLDP project will send a questionnaire to the different institutions responsible for promoting these languages.

The results of the survey will serve to determine the most appropriate way for the digital development of these languages. From there, the so-called Digital Language Survival Kit will be developed, which basically consists of a set of recommendations to revitalize the use.

The survey will also be the first study on the digital needs of minority language speakers. Interest groups and research agents will receive useful information about the vision that current social movements and speaking communities have in this area and about the resources they would like to develop for their language in the digital sphere.

In addition, this project will develop a roadmap for digital linguistic diversity. The goal is for this roadmap to be a kind of guide for policy makers and stakeholders to help them decide in the future what digital tools language institutions and governments should develop to achieve an effective revitalization of minority or endangered languages.

The DLDP project, funded by the European Union within the Erasmus Plus program, is led by Dr. Claudia Soria, researcher at the Institute of Computational Linguistics Consiglio Nacionalista delle Ricerche (Pisa, Italy). Other participants in this project are: European Language Equality Network (ELEN, France), Department of Nordic and Baltic Languages of the Institute of Slavic, Turkish and Cincunaltic Languages of the University of Mainz (Germany), Elhuyar Foundation and the Carelian Linguistic Association (KKS).

To answer the survey click here: Survey