Possibly all that the Rangi internet users needed was a publicly available space in a well-known location that was dedicated to their language. 250 members with daily traffic.Īpart from Rangi speakers using citizen media tools like Facebook already, it may have helped that I have been active in Rangi orthography development, literacy activities and literature production since 1997. ), I invited the only three Rangi on Facebook who I knew, and within 2 hours, literally two hours, the group had grown to 26 members, and after eight months now, it stands at approx. So when I started a Facebook group in Rangi earlier this year (Tuluusike Kilaangi = Let’s speak Rangi cf. Maybe, I’ve just been fortunate, or maybe, Rangi language speakers are quite unusual in their internet usage but presumably, most languages which are still spoken by the younger generation have a good number of speakers who are using citizen media tools already. With regard to building an online community that is using the Rangi language of Tanzania (“Rangi” is the English name of the language “Kilaangi” is the ethnonym), I didn’t have to do a lot.
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