iPhones may help save Cherokee language (fwd link)

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iPhones may help save Cherokee language

Apple partners with Native American tribe to develop Cherokee language
software for the iPhone, iPod touch and iPad.

Tue, Jan 04 2011 at 2:00 PM EST Comments

The Cherokee language was developed in 1821 by a blacksmith named
Sequoyah. The tribe is said to take particular pride in their alphabet
and obtained a printing press to publish the Cherokee Phoenix in 1828.
According to tribal leaders, the Cherokee newspaper was the nation's
first bilingual newspaper, with copies circulated as far away as
Europe.

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