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So when do you imagine they'll be implementing Navajo language support in their UI?

Or is someone going to have to make the judgement call that Navajo users don't constitute a big enough political block to influence their l10n priorities?

Someone has to make those calls

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Navajo speakers aren't a political bloc, they're a linguistic bloc, and support for languages is driven by revenue potential in any software company I've ever seen.

Language is partly power and identity. Definitely somewhat political.

Cultural respect should not be contingent on monetary incentives.

A company choosing where in the world they want to do business has approximately nothing to do with “cultural respect” as far as I understand the term.

While I have no doubt that this is said with well intentions, imagine a systemic way of dealing with this that is not facism.

There isn't. The only systemic and consistent way of enforcing "respect" as a society is some government thought court crime tribunal.

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