Tag: Indigenous Language Revitalization

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Transient Languages and Cultures Blog

http://blogs.usyd.edu.au/elac/

This up to date blog, is authored collectively by the members of PARADISEC.  PARADISEC was reviewed in an earlier posting to this blog.  The blog provides a rich set of resources and ongoing commentary on current research efforts in language preservation and revitalization.  There are numerous links to related blogs and to sites maintained by linguistic researchers.

As with the parent PARADISEC site, it is hard to tell if there is a large amount of indigenous input into this site, but nevertheless, the site does provide useful tools to those working in indigenous  language linguistics.

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k-net

Keewaytinook Okimakanak (www.knet.ca) is an Aboriginal tribal council in northern Ontario (Canada) that uses Moodle to provide eLearning programs for primary, secondary and adult learners in remote First Nations communities.   I’m a huge proponent of open source learning technologies, so it is nice to see Moodle being adopted by indigenous community groups.  One of the limitations of
mainstream learning management systems and learning technologies is that they are limited to mainstream language groups.  It’s not cost effective for the large vendors to support indigenous language groups.  Moodle allows users to develop their own language packs.  It seems that an Oji-Cree language pack is being developed by the the Kwayaciiwin Resource Centre (http://www.kwayaciiwin.com) in Sioux Lookout, Ontario, with support from knet.

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FATSIL (Federation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders)

http://www.fatsil.org.au

This is an Aboriginal run Australian organization which is a national body for community based indigenous language programs in Australia.  According to the site, the organisation was established in 1991 in response to the Australian Language and Literacy Policy, to promote the maintenance, retrieval and revival of indigenous languages, through the support of community based language programs.  FATSIL “acts in an advisory role on issues relating to Indigenous languages to ATSIC, government and relevant non-government agencies, and provides a communication network to support information sharing between all target groups involved with Indigenous languages in Australia.”

The site provides excellent resources such as newsletters, discussion forums, a monthly profiled language,  links to published research.  The site apprears to promote a very positive, community-based approach to language revitalization and maintenance.

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Teaching Indigenous Languages

http://jan.ucc.nau.edu/~jar/TIL.html

This is a resource site with all sorts of tools and resources related to indigenous language teaching and revitalization.  The site, maintained by Northern Arizona University, is an offshoot of a series of annual conferences on stabilizing indigenous languages. The site includes an archive of conference proceedings, helpful overviews on the topic of language revitalization, and numerous resources to help teachers and linguists working in the area of indigenous languages.

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Technology Enhanced Language Revitalization (U of Arizona)

http://projects.ltc.arizona.edu/gates/TELR.html

Although it appears to not have been maintained very recently, this site provides a collection of resources for anyone working in the area of indigenous language revitalization.   Included are numerous articles, a listserv subscription, links to numerous indigenous language dictionaries, and archives of University of Arizona courses for teachers of indigenous languages.  There are also extensive links to research articles in the area of language revitalization.

Also available are various indigenous fonts (such as Cree, Dene and Navaho),

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