CFP: Puliima National Indigenous Language and Technology Forum 2013
Call for Abstracts & Expressions of Interest to Exhibit Proposals for presenting and/or exhibiting at Puliima 2013 are now being called. An excellent reference for determining whether your proposal...
View ArticleCFP: Endangered Languages Beyond Boundaries: Community Connections,...
Call for Abstracts: FEL XVII – Endangered Languages Beyond Boundaries Ottawa, Canada – October 2013 The Seventeenth Conference of the Foundation for Endangered Languages in association with Carleton...
View ArticleCFP: Digital Humanities 2012, Digital Diversity: Cultures, Languages and Methods
Digital Humanities 2012: 16-22 July Digital Diversity: Cultures, languages and methods University of Hamburg www.dh2012.uni-hamburg.de Call for Papers: General Information The International Program...
View ArticleCan the digital age save the Cherokee language?
Phil Cash Cash, who runs the Indigenous Language and Technology listserv at the University of Arizona, sent this out today… Can the digital age save the Cherokee language? The halls of Facebook, Google...
View ArticleA question about the effects of ICTs on minority languages and culture
I missed this interview with Ritse Erumi (posted by Watan Vota on ICTWorks web site in February 2011). I invite you to read the whole interview here. Below is an excerpt in which Ms. Erumi responds to...
View ArticleA New York Jew in China
A New York Jew in China (Part 2 – Disappearing Languages) I was tipped off about this video in an April 3, 2011 tweet by @markwarschauer: “I love it! A New York Jew makes videos in Yiddish about...
View Article#imld14: International Mother Language Day
Today is designated International Mother Language Day by UNESCO. From the UNESCO IMLD site: International Mother Language Day has been observed every year since February 2000 to promote linguistic and...
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el Acervo Digital de la Cultura y Lengua Nomatsigenga
Archive of the Nomatsigenga Language and Culture About – in Nomatsigenga Ira nomatsigengajegi kara atimaigiri iroonti agibatsiteegi,aisati pinageti tojai ikantagetaigira ira ogotasantaigira ira...
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Language app: Nez Perce
A mobile application providing words and phrases in the Nez Perce Language. Containing over 1000 words, there are several categories including Basics, Phrases, People, and Animals. Note: The swastika...
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Language app: FirstVoices Keyboard App
The latest ground-breaking FirstVoices innovation from the First Peoples’ Cultural Council is an Indigenous language keyboard app for Apple and Android mobile devices. The FirstVoices Keyboard App...
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Tahltan Language Conservation Initiative Project
Tahltan Language Conservation Initiative Project (TLCIP) is a grassroots conservation effort that will focus on the preservation of the severely endangered Tahltan Language. There are only 16 fluent...
View ArticleCommunity-based materials development: using digital storytelling for...
This study examined the potential of using digital storytelling as a mechanism for materials development and Indigenous language learning. Study participants (N = 4) were interviewed after a series of...
View ArticleWampum, Sequoyan, and Story: Decolonizing the Digital Archive
For some years, the Cherokee Nation has hosted a digital archive that includes stories in the Cherokee language, available to anyone who registers for the Nation’s free online language classes or...
View ArticleDigitizing Indigenous History: Trends and Challenges
This is an exciting time for digitizing indigenous history. Leading digital humanists are engaging tribal communities in the creation of powerful online archives. The groundbreaking Mukurtu content...
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Documenting Endangered Languages – NSF Grants
Funding Opportunity Expected Number of Awards: 30 Posted Date: Jun 28, 2016 Closing Date for Applications: Sep 15, 2016 Estimated Total Program Funding: $4,000,000 Description This funding partnership...
View ArticleUNESCO Atlas of the World’s Languages in Danger
This Atlas is the result of an international collaboration of more than thirty linguists from around the world, some of whom had already been involved in the previous two editions. The editor-in-chief...
View ArticleA Crowd-Sourced Knowledge Management Approach to Language Preservation and...
Many linguists claim as many as half of the world’s nearly 7,105 languages spoken today could disappear by the end of this century. When a language becomes extinct, communities lose their cultural...
View ArticleIndigitization: Toolkit for the Digitization of First Nations Knowledge
The Indigitization Grant Program is a grant funding opportunity sponsored by the Irving K. Barber Learning Centre at the University of British Columbia1, Museum of Anthropology at the University of...
View ArticlePassamaquoddy-Maliseet Language Portal
The Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Language Portal hosts 3 interoperable databases (videos of natural group conversation, dictionary entries, and audio files), allowing the user to click on a word in a video...
View ArticleMyaamia Dictionary: “myaamiaatawaakani”
myaamiaatawaakani (Myaamia Dictionary) is the dictionary app of the Myaamia language, also known as the Miami-Illinois language, with English translations. Search for words in English or Myaamia....
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