Folks,

Does anyone know why Tibetan does not have language support in Google?

Maltese is spoken by only 350,000 people.  Yiddish is spoken by about
1 million.  Irish Gaelic (which I speak and support strongly) is
spoken by 40,000-80,000 people--NONE of whom are monolingual, save for
a few precious elders.

Tibetan is spoken by *6 million people* and has one of the oldest
literatures in the history of the world.

This cannot be an accident, can it?? 6 million speakers?  Fonts are
already developed. Extensive Tibetan-English and Tibetan-Chinese and
Tibetan-Sanskrit dictionaries exist.

I don't want to dwell on the answer too long--I'd rather solve the
problem--but I do want to get to the bottom of it.  A Chinese man
recently told me that "Google would release Tibetan support soon,
which will make it easier to track Tibetans but also easier for people
to pose as fake Tibetans" (his words).

Is he correct--is Google planning to release Tibetan support?  And is
Google working with the Chinese government to in any way enable them
to invade Tibetans' privacy in some new way?

Thanks very much to anyone willing to investigate this intriguing
phenomena with me, and more importantly, to get Tibetan support off
the ground.  And adventure as always.

Best wishes,

Sheila

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