Indigenous Tweets is a website and accompanying blog by Kevin Scannell, a professor of Computer Science at Saint Louis University. To explain the project, I quote from the Indigenous Tweets blog: Project Background Speakers of indigenous and minority languages around the world are struggling to keep their languages and cultures […]
endangered language • language | preservation • revitalization • TwitterIndigenous Language Revitalization and Technology: From Traditional to Contemporary Domains
This paper describes critical areas in which technology plays a role in language and culture revitalization and explores efforts made by Indigenous communities to preserve, maintain and revitalize their Indigenous language with the help of computer technology. People are interested in both traditional and contemporary culture and are finding new […]
2009 • cultural heritage • indigenous communities • language | preservation • revitalization