Someone on the Indigenous Language and Technology (ILAT) listserv recently inquired about multimedia dictionaries. I checked the Ethnos Project Resources Database to see what was listed and found only a handful of relevant items. We do have a growing list of Indigenous language apps (see this post by Rachael Petersen), but the selection of dictionaries was limited. So, I just finished adding a few more online Indigenous language dictionaries (many of them talking dictionaries) and some more Indigenous language apps to the Resources Database.
As a rule of thumb, I have added only database-driven dictionaries. There are plenty of syllabaries in PDF or tables of words in HTML out there, but I felt the more robust dictionaries were more appropriate to include.
Cheers,
Mark
Indigenous Language Apps
- Language app: Arikara
- Language app: Chemehuevi
- Language app: Chickasaw
- Language app: Cree
- Language app: Dakota
- Language app: Diné Bizaad
- Language app: Diné, Lakota, Mvskoke and Ponca
- Language app: Ehattesaht
- Language app: FirstVoices Chat
- Language app: FirstVoices Keyboard App
- Language app: Halq’emeylem
- Language app: Hlgaagilda Xaayda Kil
- Language app: Ho-Chunk (Hoocąk)
- Language app: Iwaidja
- Language app: Ktunaxa
- Language app: Kwak’wala
- Language app: Lakota
- Language app: Myaamia
- Language app: Nakota
- Language app: Nazko-Dakelh
- Language app: Nez Perce
- Language app: Nisga’a
- Language app: Northern St̕’át̕’imcets
- Language app: Omaha
- Language app: Saulteaux
- Language app: Secwépemc
- Language app: SENĆOŦEN
- Language app: Sliammon
- Language app: Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì
- Language app: Xeni Gwet’in
- Language app: Yugambeh
- Māori Dictionary Project
Online Indigenous Language Dictionaries
- Aboriginal Ethnic Language Dictionary (Taiwan)
- Chamacoco Online Talking Dictionary
- Cherokee Electronic Dictionary
- Dictionary of Cook Islands Languages
- Dictionary of the Jaqi languages: Aymara, Jaqaru and Kawki
- Ho Online Talking Dictionary
- Iltyem-iltyem: Sign languages in Central Australia
- Ioway, Otoe-Missouria Online Dictionary
- Kalanga Online Talking Dictionary
- Kamusi – The Global Online Living Dictionary
- Kapingamarangi Online Talking Dictionary
- Kera Mundari Online Talking Dictionary
- Kharia Online Talking Dictionary
- Lakota Dictionary Online
- Language Preservation Technology: Online Torwali (Kohistani) Dictionary
- Lenape Talking Dictionary
- Māori Dictionary Project
- Matukar Panau Online Talking Dictionary
- Mayan Online Dictionary
- Mi’gmaq / Mi’kmaq Online Talking Dictionary
- Mixtec Online Dictionary
- Mokilese Online Talking Dictionary
- Myaamia Dictionary: “myaamiaatawaakani”
- Nahuatl Online Dictionary
- Namolukese Online Talking Dictionary
- Nasa yuwe Online Talking Dictionary
- Nukuoro Online Talking Dictionary
- Ojibwe People’s Dictionary
- P’urhépecha Online Dictionary
- Passamaquoddy-Maliseet Language Portal
- Pingelapese Online Talking Dictionary
- Pohnpeian Online Talking Dictionary
- Quechua Chanka Online Talking Dictionary
- Remo Online Talking Dictionary
- San Lucas Quiaviní Zapotec Online Talking Dictionary
- Santali online talking dictionary
- Siletz Dee-ni Online Talking Dictionary
- Talking Dictionaries
- Tlacolula Valley Zapotec Online Talking Dictionary
- Tłı̨chǫ Yatıì Online Dictionary
- Tuvan Online Talking Dictionary
- Western Abenaki Dictionary