Tēnā koe Monty,<div><br></div><div>I am from the Waikato-Maniapoto and Ngāti Porou tribal groups (and some others) which are indigenous Māori groups of Aotearoa (New Zealand). I have worked on/managed a bunch of technological initiatives to revitalise the Māori language including the Niupepa project, MicroSoft Windows and Office in Māori, Moodle in Māori, the Google Search interface in Māori and the Google Translator Toolkit (for Māori). </div>
<div><br></div><div>I would be happy to share some time to discuss these projects with you in an email dialogue.</div><div><br></div><div>nāku noa nei, nā<br><br>Te Taka<br><br>-------------- <br>Te Taka Keegan, PhD<br> <br>
Pukenga Matua [Senior Lecturer] <br>Tari Rorohiko [Computer Science Dept] <br>Whare Wananga o Waikato [University of Waikato]<br>Waea: (07) 838 4420 Ph: (07) 838 4420 <br><a href="http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~tetaka">http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~tetaka</a> <br>
----------------------------------------------------------- <br></div><div> <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 4:14 AM, monty hill <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mhill06@simons-rock.edu">mhill06@simons-rock.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">Chwe:'n everyone,</span><div>
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</span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">I'm Montgomery Hill, a member of the Tuscarora tribe of the Haudenosaunee confederacy, and a student writing my undergrad thesis on 'The Use of Modern Technology in Language Revitalization Projects: Applications, Benefits and Concerns'. </span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">It is a cross-disciplinary study in Computer Science and Linguistics, exploring (as the tentative title describes) use of technology, and any sort of thoughts a given community and project members have about the use of various technologies (for example, web based dictionaries, television shows, learning software, and so on).</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">Basically, I'm looking for people from other Indigenous Language Communities to share a short email dialogue with about their Language Revitalization Projects use of technology, and what sort of benefits or issues they have seen arise from that use!</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><br></span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">Nya:weh for your time,</span></div>
<div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse">Montgomery Hill </span></div><div><span style="font-family:arial, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:13px;border-collapse:collapse"><br>
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</blockquote></div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>nāku noa nei, nā<br> <br>Te Taka<br> <br>-------------- <br>Te Taka Keegan, PhD<br> <br>Pukenga Matua [Senior Lecturer] <br>Tari Rorohiko [Computer Science Dept] <br>
Whare Wananga o Waikato [University of Waikato]<br>Waea: (07) 838 4420 Ph: (07) 838 4420 <br><a href="http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~tetaka">http://www.cs.waikato.ac.nz/~tetaka</a> <br>----------------------------------------------------------- <br>
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