  Language technology has the potential to facilitate intercultural
communication through meaningful translations. However, the current state of
language technology is deeply entangled with colonial knowledge due to path
dependencies and neo-colonial tendencies in the global governance of artificial
intelligence (AI). Language technology is a complex and emerging field that
presents challenges for co-design interventions due to enfolding in assemblages
of global scale and diverse sites and its knowledge intensity. This paper uses
LiveLanguage, a lexical database, a set of services with particular emphasis on
modelling language diversity and integrating small and minority languages, as
an example to discuss and close the gap from pluriversal design theory to
practice. By diversifying the concept of emerging technology, we can better
approach language technology in global contexts. The paper presents a model
comprising of five layers of technological activity. Each layer consists of
specific practices and stakeholders, thus provides distinctive spaces for
co-design interventions as mode of inquiry for de-linking, re-thinking and
re-building language technology towards pluriversality. In that way, the paper
contributes to reflecting the position of co-design in decolonising emergent
technologies, and to integrating complex theoretical knowledge towards
decoloniality into language technology design.
