The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians in Oregon worked with the National Geographic Fellows and Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania to create a 14,000 word online “talking dictionary” of the Siletz language, while Canada’s Inuit people joined forces with Microsoft to translate the Windows operating system and Office software into Inuktitut. Read and listen to the story on the [...]
Read the story at Native News Network: Menominee Seventh Grader Suspended for Saying “I Love You” in her Native Language
Google Tsalagi
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Mar 252011
Tahlequah, OK (Vocus/PRWEB) March 25, 2011 The international technology leader Google has added the Cherokee written language, called Cherokee Syllabary, to its repertoire of searchable languages. Just like the many other languages Google supports, now anyone who can read and write Cherokee can look up virtually anything in the world,or at least the world of [...]
Wampanoags Revive Language
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Mar 222011
Wampanoag woman reintroduces lost language. Read the story in the Martha’s Vineyard Patch: Wampanoags regain their voice
