Survey of Native American / First Nations language use on Facebook

[Dr. MJ Hardman]

One of the advantages of Skype ‹ though not always clear.  MJ

On 9/23/14, 11:18 AM, "Wayne Leman" <wleman1949b at gmail.com> wrote:

> I have often wished that it would make it easier for indigenous languages to
> be use orally on Facebook. There are many speakers of indigenous languages,
> including in the Americas, whose primary use of their language is oral rather
> than literate. Facebook does not permit mp3 files to be posted. It would help
> oral communication on Facebook if they could be. Of course, it would help most
> if there were some easy method of chatting orally in indigenous languages on
> Facebook. Maybe there already is, but I have often checked and the closest
> thing I have found is video chat. And video chat takes a lot of bandwidth. I
> don't think there is group video chat yet on Facebook.
>  
> Wayne
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Dr. MJ Hardman
Professor Emeritus
Linguistics, Anthropology and Latin American Studies
University of Florida
Doctora Honoris Causa UNMSM, Lima, Perú
website:  http://clas.ufl.edu/users/hardman/ 

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