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also, as an interesting semi-segue on this thought: there is an active group of researchers between a number of entities in africa working on creating better online corpuses of african languages (because what exists online is so scant)
they've been at it for over 2 years now, as far as I know. when I last looked, fairly little of their work had gotten wider recognition
"too small, too niche" to "address properly" is how each of these large outfits treat things like this. if they ever do give it some attention at all, it would likely be as part of some wider (batched) brush-stroke push to "improve our support for non-english languages" (or "$x art" or or or), and each will be given their respective 5% of attention for 3 hours then never again