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translators and to human translators working with these languages. For
instance, in addition to overdue spelling reform for Portuguese, and a lack
of public resources to automatize Italian, Portuguese and Romanian 18 other
than those provided by the European Commission, there is a blatant lack of
terminology policies for all these languages, other than French and Catalan.
This latter situation is moreover the reason civil society initiatives have been
launched, notably that of the Pan-Latin Terminology Network (Realiter) 19 ,
which brings together the main actors in the terminology of seven Romance
languages, and which despite some remarkable work, is, clearly, far from being
able to meet the needs of all these languages.
The Three Linguistic Spaces 20 are preparing an interoperability project for
Spanish, French and Portuguese terminological data banks, which might give
strong impetus to the terminological vitality of the three languages, but the
road ahead is long. Let us hope that a similar project on language technologies
for all the Romance languages can follow on from it.
We are striving today to give effect to Action Line C8 of the World Summit on
the Information Society Action Plan “Cultural diversity and identity, linguistic
diversity and local content”, to recommendations of international meetings.
Documents that came out of the MAAYA seminars in Bamako, Havana
and Barcelona, and those that came out of the 2008 Conference in Yakutsk
should be applied for equitable representativeness of languages and cultures
in cyberspace 21 . The World Network for Linguistic Diversity MAAYA is well
on the way to this goal, with constant support from the Latin Union. Today
subject to the policy of preservation, promotion and modernization should be
not only the Romance languages descended from Latin, but also all those with
which they share spaces and concerns for the future.
The Latin Union is convinced that supporting MAAYA ideas is essential,
in particular the idea of holding a summit on linguistic diversity and
multilingualism, because we are sure that the political will exists today more
than ever before to renew most of the world’s languages.
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Despite the sustained activity of two institutes of the Romanian Academy, the linguistics institute and the
artificial intelligence institute.
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See .
20
Group consisting of five intergovernmental organizations wishing to act in favour of French, Spanish and
Portuguese languages and cultures: Community of Portuguese-Speaking Countries (CPLP), International
Organisation of La Francophonie (OIF), Organization of Ibero-American States (OEI), Ibero-American
General Secretariat (SEGIB) and the Latin Union.
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Read the full text of the Action Line in the UNESCO list of actions for WSIS: .
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