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UNESCO considers the Assyrian (Syriac) language an endangered language. Although Assyrians speak the language worldwide, the speaking population is uncertain (ranging from 500,000 to 1,500,000). Syria...
arXiv:2606. 25365v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: We present a study on low-resource machine translation for the Tangkhul-English (nmf-en) language pair.
arXiv:2608.23120v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Pnar, an Austroasiatic language spoken by approximately 0.4 million people in the Jaintia Hills of Meghalaya, lacks the digital corpora and natural l...
arXiv:2607. 23319v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Standard subword tokenization algorithms such as Byte-Pair Encoding (BPE) and SentencePiece are trained predominantly on modern language corpora and produce inefficient segmentations when applied to classical Indian languages.
arXiv:2608. 07629v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Multilingual neural machine translation models such as NLLB-200 cover 200 languages but leave thousands unsupported, including most Grassfields Bantu languages of Cameroon.
arXiv:2606.13218v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Arabic and Hebrew, as closely related Semitic languages, share many words with similar surface forms, including true cognates, false friends, and m...