List of endangered languages with mobile apps
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This is a list of endangered languages with mobile apps available for use in language revitalization.
Endangered Australian languages with mobile apps[]
- The Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages (LAAL) is a digital archive of literature in endangered languages of Australia, containing works in over forty Australian Aboriginal languages from the Northern Territory, Australia. The LAAL Reader app is available on Apple App Store and Google Play.
Individual languages[]
- Anindilyakwa language (Northern Territory) The NT Languages Anindilyakwa app provides flash cards in English and Anindilyakwa, and provides audio samples of both. Some words also include hand movements in small video clips. Available in Apple[1] and Android[2]
- Barngarla language (South Australia) – A mobile app featuring a dictionary of over 3000 Barngarla words.[3]
- Erub Mer (Torres Strait Island language, Queensland)[4]
- Iwaidja language (Northern Territory) – The Ma! Iwadja app is being used to teach the language.[5]
- Miriwoong language (Western Australia) – a mobile app dictionary of 1400 words and phrases
- Wiradjuri language (New South Wales) – a mobile app available for iOS, Android and a web based version.
- Yawuru language (Western Australia)[6]
Endangered Asian languages with mobile apps[]
- Kristang (Malacca Creole Portuguese) The Kriseh Kristang ('Grow, Kristang') Memrise course was released in July 2016.[7]
Endangered Native American languages with mobile apps[]
- Arikara language[8]
- Blackfoot language - The Siksika Nation has created an app for IOS devices that can be downloaded here.
- Caddo language[9]
- Cherokee language[10]
- Chickasaw language
- Comox language — A Sliammon iPhone app was released in March 2012.[11] An online dictionary, phrasebook, and language learning portal is available at FirstVoices.[12]
- Cree language app - produced by the Maskwacis Cree of Samsun Cree Nation
- Dakota language[13]
- Haida language — A Skidegate Haida language app is available for iPhone, based on a "bilingual dictionary and phrase collection comprised of words and phrases archived at the online Aboriginal language database FirstVoices.com."[14]
- Halkomelem language — A Halkomelem iPhone app was released in 2011.[15]
- Inuvialuk language[16]
- Konkow language
- Kutenai language — A Kutenai language app, Ktunaxa is available at the FirstVoices website.[17][18]
- Lakota language[19]
- Lillooet language
- Luiseño language
- Mandan language[20]
- Nisga’a language
- Nuu-chah-nulth language
- Ojibwe language
- Saanich dialect
- Seneca language — As of January 2013, a Seneca language app was under development.[21]
- Stoney Nakoda language - this app was produced by the Stoney Nakoda Nation.
- Tanacross language
- Tlingit language[22][23]
- Tłı̨chǫ language[16]
- Upper Kuskokwim language
- Winnebago language
Endangered European languages with mobile apps[]
- Manx Gaelic[24]
- Söl'ring dialect — Mobile friendly web app at friisk.org was released in 2018 for translations, conjugations, and pronunciations.
References[]
- ^ Apple App Store
- ^ Google Play
- ^ Harrison, Billie (2016-10-12). "Barngarla app to share language | GALLERY". Port Lincoln Times. Retrieved 2017-05-09.
- ^ Coggan, Maggie (25 March 2019). "The digital platform saving Indigenous languages from extinction". ProBono Australia. Retrieved 18 January 2020.
- ^ DOBES documentation of endangered languages, Iwaidja Archived September 10, 2015, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ "Yawuru & Jila | ThoughtWorks". www.thoughtworks.com. Retrieved 2019-06-18.
- ^ "Kriseh Kristang 1". Memrise. Retrieved 2016-07-08.
- ^ Rudy, Dan (2014-04-20). "Arikara app aims to revitalize language". Minot Daily News, via KansasCity.com. Retrieved 2014-04-26.
- ^ "Caddo Language App Now Available on Android Market". alterNative Media. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
- ^ Rodriguez, Jillian. "Introducing...Mango's New Cherokee Language Course". blog.mangolanguages.com. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
- ^ "FirstVoices Apps". FirstVoices. Retrieved 2012-10-04.
- ^ "FirstVoices: Sliammon Community Portal". Retrieved 2012-10-04.
- ^ "TLC delivers new apps for Nakoda & Dakota languages". The Language Conservancy. 2017-01-20. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
- ^ "FirstVoices: Hlg̱aagilda X̱aayda Kil Welcome Page". Retrieved 2013-01-19.
- ^ Hul, Stephen (2012-12-15). "FirstVoices apps bring B.C. First Nations languages to iPhone". Straight.com, Vancouver's online source. Archived from the original on 2012-11-02. Retrieved 2012-10-21.
- ^ Jump up to: a b "iDecolonize: A Review of Indigenous Language-Learning Apps". Rising Voices. 2013-06-21. Retrieved 2013-12-22.
- ^ "FirstVoices: Ktunaxa Community Portal". Retrieved 2012-07-08.
- ^ "British Columbia aboriginal communities using technology to bring endangered languages back from the brink - thestar.com". Retrieved 2012-07-08.
- ^ "Mobile Apps". Lakota Language Consortium. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
- ^ "Mandan Vocab Builder". MHA Language Project - Mandan. Retrieved 2019-01-05.
- ^ Diana Louise Carter (2013-01-07). "Want to speak Seneca? There's an app for that". Press & Sun-Bulletin. Archived from the original on October 25, 2014. Retrieved 2013-01-12.
- ^ AppAdvice Staff. "Yakutat Tlingit by Thornton Media, Inc". AppAdvice. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
- ^ Chavis, Chavis (31 August 2016). "Want to learn Tlingit? There's a new app for that". KTOO FM. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
- ^ "Mobile & Web Apps | Culture Vannin | Isle of Man". www.culturevannin.im. Retrieved 2018-01-05.
External links[]
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