OS X has had a pretty good IME for typing Ainu with since... At least three OS versions ago.The problem is that there is no proper way to easily type the small katakana yet.
Ciarán12 wrote:Having recently gotten back into Ainu, I certainly hope the forum stays around. There really isn't that much out there in English about Ainu (for learners anyway), so this forum actually represents a big chunk of the English-speaking Ainu learners' resources online.
Ciarán12 wrote:Secondly, the forums here are no based on how many native speakers a language has, but on how many users here actually want to learn a language
Ciarán12 wrote:(which usually ends up meaning the opposite criterion - the fewer the speakers, the more likely Unilangers will want to learn it, thus the more likely it is to have a forum).
johnklepac wrote:There does seem to be more than a bit of disproportionality among languages learned here: after all, Welsh, Irish, and Finnish seem to be among the most popular. But I'd say there's probably an overall positive correlation between number of speakers and popularity on UL. The most popular languages, I think, include Spanish, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, Chinese, and Japanese, and they're all much more popular than any of those isolated languages spoken in central Russia, southern Africa, or Brazil, for example. This seems even to be true within the field of constructed languages: Esperanto is much more popular than Ithkuil or Toki Pona. It's just the big exceptions that throw me; Ainu is a prominent one of them. Ones like Latin or Ancient Greek are more understandable considering how popular they are for academic study, even without sizable bases of real speakers. Ainu doesn't seem to boast any of that, though, yet popular it remains (or has remained, anyway).
Ciarán12 wrote:Incidentally, although many people have Irish on their wishlist there are very few people active on the forum. I think linguoboy and I are the only two that really post, for everyone else I think it's a fleeting wonderlust.
Eginhard wrote:Ciarán12 wrote:Incidentally, although many people have Irish on their wishlist there are very few people active on the forum. I think linguoboy and I are the only two that really post, for everyone else I think it's a fleeting wonderlust.
Yeah, I'm guilty of that myself. But I just realised yesterday that I should put more effort into learning Irish instead of getting distracted by other languages. There are more than enough resources in the library here and also many opportunities to speak it. My comprehension skills have actually improved a lot since I moved here, but I'm so bad at forming sentences…
Ciarán12 wrote:Incidentally, although many people have Irish on their wishlist there are very few people active on the forum. I think linguoboy and I are the only two that really post, for everyone else I think it's a fleeting wonderlust.
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