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Observational analysis reveals Indigenous languages remain digitally invisible, suggesting AI tools like machine translation may help.
What can physics offer to the study of endangered languages? In a world where only a small fraction of the approximately 7,000 spoken languages are represented in the current wave of artificial intelligence—through tools like machine translation, voice assistants, or large language models—most Indigenous languages, especially those of South America, remain digitally invisible.
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