<HTML><BODY style="word-wrap: break-word; -khtml-nbsp-mode: space; -khtml-line-break: after-white-space; "><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> </SPAN></FONT></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><A href="http://ruphus.com/blog/2006/08/29/phraselators-for-cherokee/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">http://ruphus.com/blog/2006/08/29/phraselators-for-cherokee/</SPAN></FONT></A></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 12.0px 0.0px"><A href="http://ruphus.com/blog/2006/08/29/phraselators-for-cherokee/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="4"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><B>Phraselators for Cherokee</B></SPAN></FONT></A></P><DIV style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; "><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#777777" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">August 29th, 2006</SPAN></FONT></DIV><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><A href="http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060828/NEWS01/60827024/1107"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">CITIZEN-TIMES.com: High-tech language lessons from tribe</SPAN></FONT></A></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians will use a federal grant to buy hand-held computers that translate English into Cherokee.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">The computers, called Phraselators and made by Maryland-based VoxTec International, will help the tribe teach members how to speak Cherokee.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">The </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.phraselator.com/"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1F69C7">Phraselator</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"> is a small hand-held translation device. In the articles I’ve read about the device, it’s mostly been used in combat (if I recall correctly it was first developed for the military). It’s nice to see it being used in a language preservation situation.</SPAN></FONT></P><P style="margin: 0.0px 0.0px 10.0px 0.0px"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">With about 20,000 speakers, </SPAN></FONT><A href="http://www.native-languages.org/cherokee.htm"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;"><FONT class="Apple-style-span" color="#1F69C7">Tsalagi</FONT></SPAN></FONT></A><FONT class="Apple-style-span" face="Arial" size="2"><SPAN class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 10px;">, the Cherokee Language, is one of the most-spoken Native American languages.</SPAN></FONT></P></BODY></HTML>