Din=?UTF-8?Q?=C3=A9_?=Bizaad App for iPhone(R), iPad(R) & iPod touch(R) by Native Innovation, Inc.

[Mark Oppenneer]

Great news, Kialo - very nice work.

I just wrote you separately, but wanted to let others know that Diné Bizaad
now appears in the list of language apps on the Ethnos Project website:
http://www.ethnosproject.org/indigenous-language-apps-online-indigenous-language-dictionaries/

That list was started because of a discussion on ILAT, so it seems fitting
to share it again here... If you know of other apps missing from the list,
please let me know.

Cheers,
Mark




[image: Ethnos Project]

Mark D. Oppenneer
Ethnos Project
  <http://www.ethnosproject.org/>


On Sat, Sep 13, 2014 at 2:39 PM, Kialo Winters <kialo.winters at gmail.com>
wrote:

> Dear ILAT Friends,
>
> The Diné Bizaad App for iPhone®, iPad® & iPod touch® by Native
> Innovation, Inc. is here!! The Navajo Dictionary app properly named Diné
> Bizaad app has been published to the iTunes store this weekend. This
> language learning tool contains data that is loaded through a form of open
> source. This is done by a facilitation group of Diné language enthusiasts
> contributing from anywhere around the world. In fact, this goal of
> community based sharing helped develop the move from a desktop browser to a
> mobile app design. The concept of crowdsourcing common Diné words and
> phrases allows us to input the regional variations of pronunciations and
> vocabularies spoken by our Diné people.
>
> The Diné Bizaad app has two parts, a Diné-English vocabulary and a
> English-Diné vocabulary. The English words and phrases are all associated
> to Diné words and phrases. The synonyms element and antonyms element are
> important principal parts in searching correct Diné word and phrase
> associations within the app. Access full article:
> http://nativeinnovation.us/index.php/the-new-dine-bizaad-app-for-iphone-ipad-ipod-touch/
>
> "Ahéhee' hane' shá náás bi’ííníłnii'ígíí thanks for the retweet!”
> #DinéBizaad #edtech #mlearning Download yours today!!
> https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/dine-bizaad/id914242572?mt=8
>
> On Sep 11, 2014, at 3:57 PM, Phil Cash Cash <weyiiletpu at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> *Premier of 'Navajo Star Wars' centerpiece of Native language institute
> program*
>
> Published on Thursday, 11 September 2014 15:48
> Written by University of Texas at Arlington Linguistics Dept.
>
> ARLINGTON, Texas – Less than two weeks after the passing of Chester Nez,
> one of the original Navajo Code Talkers, the University of Texas at
> Arlington hosted the Texas premiere of ‘Navajo Star Wars’ at CoLang 2014, a
> major institute on language revitalization focusing on Native American and
> other endangered languages.  Nearly two hundred people, representing
> twenty-nine different tribes and indigenous communities from the Americas
> and countries ranging from Australia to Japan and Ethiopia, participated in
> events at CoLang in June and July.
>
> As part of the public events, the first Texas screening of ‘Navajo Star
> Wars’ took place.  The Navajo Nation Museum worked with Lucasfilm and 20th
> Century Fox to create a Navajo language version of the science fiction
> classic, with dialogue dubbed into Navajo and accompanied by English
> subtitles.  Navajo Language Academy Executive Director Irene Silentman
> commented on the movie’s significance.
>
> "It’s one way of preserving the language, it’s one of the most fun ways to
> do it. It’s a major motion picture.  It brings the language up to par with
> English, in a sense. I know a lot of people, when they first viewed the
> movie in Navajo, they were so proud. It’s something to be proud of, to show
> off the language, and to show it in other forms.  You can use it [Navajo]
> in any form, you can use it in any field," said Silentman.
>
> ​Access full article below:
>
> http://nativetimes.com/index.php/life/education/10483-premier-of-navajo-star-wars-centerpiece-of-native-language-institute-program
> ​
>
>
>
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