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 contains keyboard software for over 100 languages, and includes every First Nations language in Canada, Australia and New Zealand, plus many languages in […]
aboriginal • Australia • Canada • FirstVoices • indigenous language • keyboard • language | preservation • language app • multilingual • New ZealandNew Technologies and Contested Ideologies
About the Tagish-Tlingit FirstVoices project – published in the American Indian Quarterly, Winter & Spring 2006, Vol. 30, Nos. 1 & 2. The website discussed in the article is featured below: http://www.firstvoices.ca In December 2004 representatives of the Yukon government and the First People’s Cultural Foundation of British Columbia signed […]
2006 • archive • culture | preservation • First Nations • FirstVoices • indigenous language • language | preservation • multimedia • Tagish • Tlingit • YukonFirstVoices
FirstVoices is a suite of web-based tools and services designed to support Aboriginal people engaged in language archiving, language teaching & culture revitalization. The FirstVoices Language Archive contains thousands of text entries in many diverse Aboriginal writing systems, enhanced with sounds, pictures and videos. A companion set of interactive online […]
aboriginal • archive • culture | preservation • First Nations • FirstVoices • indigenous languageLanguage app: Nazko-Dakelh
The Nazko-Dakelh app is a media-rich bilingual dictionary and phrase collection comprised of words and phrases archived at the online Aboriginal language database FirstVoices.com. Word and phrase definitions are illustrated with audio recordings, images and videos. Editing features allow users to customize content by replacing default multimedia with personal pictures, […]
aboriginal • dictionary • FirstVoices • indigenous language • language | preservation • language app • Nazko-DakelhLanguage app: Xeni Gwet’in
The Xeni Gwet’in app is a media-rich bilingual dictionary and phrase collection comprised of words and phrases archived at the online Aboriginal language database FirstVoices.com. Word and phrase definitions are illustrated with audio recordings, images and videos. Editing features allow users to customize content by replacing default multimedia with personal […]
aboriginal • dictionary • FirstVoices • indigenous language • language | preservation • language app • Xeni Gwet'inLanguage app: Secwépemc
The Secwépemc app is a media-rich bilingual dictionary and phrase collection comprised of words and phrases archived at the online Aboriginal language database FirstVoices.com. Word and phrase definitions are illustrated with audio recordings, images and videos. Editing features allow users to customize content by replacing default multimedia with personal pictures, […]
aboriginal • dictionary • FirstVoices • indigenous language • language | preservation • language app • SecwepemctsinLanguage app: FirstVoices Chat
FirstVoices Chat is a multilingual texting app with keypads serving over 100 Indigenous languages. The app was developed in response to First Nation youth who want to communicate via social media in their own languages. Most Indigenous writing systems use unique characters previously unavailable in mobile technologies. Interested in learning […]
aboriginal • chat • dictionary • FirstVoices • indigenous language • language | preservation • language app • multilingual • textingLanguage app: Northern St̕’át̕’imcets
The Northern St̕’át̕’imcets app is a media-rich bilingual dictionary and phrase collection comprised of words and phrases archived at the online Aboriginal language database FirstVoices.com. Word and phrase definitions are illustrated with audio recordings, images and videos. Editing features allow users to customize content by replacing default multimedia with personal […]
aboriginal • dictionary • FirstVoices • indigenous language • language | preservation • language app • Northern St̕'át̕'imcetsLanguage app: Ktunaxa
The Ktunaxa Language app is a media-rich bilingual dictionary and phrase collection comprised of words and phrases archived at the online Aboriginal language database FirstVoices.com. Word and phrase definitions are illustrated with audio recordings, images and videos. Editing features allow users to customize content by replacing default multimedia with personal […]
aboriginal • dictionary • FirstVoices • indigenous language • Ktunaxa • language | preservation • language appLanguage app: Sliammon
The Sliammon app is a media-rich bilingual dictionary and phrase collection comprised of words and phrases archived at the online Aboriginal language database FirstVoices.com. Word and phrase definitions are illustrated with audio recordings, images and videos. Editing features allow users to customize content by replacing default multimedia with personal pictures, […]
aboriginal • dictionary • FirstVoices • indigenous language • language | preservation • language app • SliammonLanguage app: Nisga’a
The Nisg̱a’a app is a media-rich bilingual dictionary and phrase collection comprised of words and phrases archived at the online Aboriginal language database FirstVoices.com. Word and phrase definitions are illustrated with audio recordings, images and videos. Editing features allow users to customize content by replacing default multimedia with personal pictures, […]
aboriginal • dictionary • FirstVoices • indigenous language • language | preservation • language app • Nisga'aLanguage app: Ehattesaht
The Ehattesaht app is a media-rich bilingual dictionary and phrase collection comprised of words and phrases archived at the online Aboriginal language database FirstVoices.com. Word and phrase definitions are illustrated with audio recordings, images and videos. Editing features allow users to customize content by replacing default multimedia with personal pictures, […]
aboriginal • dictionary • Ehattesaht • FirstVoices • indigenous language • language | preservation • language appLanguage app: Kwak’wala
The Kwak’wala app is a media-rich bilingual dictionary and phrase collection comprised of words and phrases archived at the online Aboriginal language database FirstVoices.com. Word and phrase definitions are illustrated with audio recordings, images and videos. Editing features allow users to customize content by replacing default multimedia with personal pictures, […]
aboriginal • dictionary • FirstVoices • indigenous language • Kwak'wala • language | preservation • language appLanguage app: Hlgaagilda Xaayda Kil
The Skidegate Haida Language app is a media-rich bilingual dictionary and phrase collection comprised of words and phrases archived at the online Aboriginal language database FirstVoices.com. Word and phrase definitions are illustrated with audio recordings, images and videos. Editing features allow users to customize content by replacing default multimedia with […]
aboriginal • dictionary • FirstVoices • Haida • indigenous language • language | preservation • language app • Skidegate HaidaLanguage app: SENĆOŦEN
The SENĆOŦEN app is a media-rich bilingual dictionary and phrase collection comprised of words and phrases archived at the online Aboriginal language database FirstVoices.com. Word and phrase definitions are illustrated with audio recordings, images and videos. Editing features allow users to customize content by replacing default multimedia with personal pictures, […]
aboriginal • dictionary • FirstVoices • indigenous language • language | preservation • language app • SENĆOŦENLanguage app: Halq’emeylem
The Halq’eméylem app is a media-rich bilingual dictionary and phrase collection comprised of words and phrases archived at the online Aboriginal language database FirstVoices.com. Word and phrase definitions are illustrated with audio recordings, images and videos. Editing features allow users to customize content by replacing default multimedia with personal pictures, […]
aboriginal • dictionary • FirstVoices • Halq'emeylem • indigenous language • language | preservation • language appSecwepemctsin language app for Nintendo DSi and soon iPad
From The Daily News (Kamloops): Nintendo scores for native language “With as few as 150 fluent Secwepemctsin speakers remaining, most of them over age 65, the Secwepemc Cultural Education Society has come up with software for preserving the language. Nintendo DSi software that teaches Secwepemctsin to young children is in […]
aboriginal • application • education • FirstVoices • language | preservation • Nintendo • revitalization • Secwepemctsin • tablet / iPadFirstVoices Chat App enables Indigenous language speakers to text in their own language
FirstVoices Chat From the First Peoples’ Cultural Council press release (in full below): Brentwood Bay, B.C. – FirstVoices Chat, an Indigenous language texting app for Facebook Chat and Google Talk, is now available at the Apple App Store as a free download for iPad, iTouch and iPhone. The app contains […]
aboriginal • application • cultural heritage • First Nations • FirstVoices • indigenous language • language | preservation • revitalization • smart phone • tablet / iPad • youthTechnology Snapshot: Indigenous Language & Cultural Preservation
How is the web impacting aboriginal communities? Phillip Djwa’s work focuses on the key components of social responsibility through technology. He’s worked for a wide variety of technology companies in senior positions for many years. Now, through Agentic Communications, which is a web development company that works with progressive organizations […]
aboriginal • archive • endangered language • First Nations • FirstVoices • indigenous communities • indigenous language • language | preservation • QR code • Quechua • video gameNegotiating Community Resistance
“Esdunèna keh kudoge dahkwandēʼ tedètsʼet. Neni dahtsʼadi netʼē dahkwandē tsʼèn keniden. Dahtsʼadi etʼē dahkwandēʼ. Dahkwandēʼ niʼushdèn shį̀. Dahkwandēʼ tsʼèn keniden. Dahkwandēʼ tsʼèn keniden.” [“To all my children, we are losing our language. You are our future leaders; you must learn our language. It is the root and heart of our […]
2008 • authority • community resistance • elder • FirstVoices • ICT4D • indigenous communities • Nyoongar • revitalization • Tagish • Tlingit • western values