[NEWS] Five language links: Cantonese, Arabic, Gaelic, French, Sumerian

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• The Cantonese language, the SCMP reports, is falling out of use among young people in Guangzhou.


• The Muslim Hui, living outside of Xinjiang, are being pressured to shut down Arabic-medium schools. The SCMP reports.


• The Scottish government has received only two complaints about Gaelic on bilingual road signs in the past seventeen years. The National reports.


• HuffPost Québec notes that the French language has been displaced as the chief language of wine by English.


• Advanced artificial intelligence has the potential to aid in the translation of ancient languages like Sumerian, with stockpiles of untranslated material just waiting for an eye's attention. The BBC explains.