<b>Aboriginal languages finding new life with technology<br></b><br>Arik Ligeti, Global News : Wednesday, October 24, 2012 6:00 PM<br><br>TORONTO - Census data released today shows a slight decline in aboriginal speakers in Canada, but efforts are being made to revitalize aboriginal languages.<br>
<br>One innovative project is FirstVoices Chat, a free texting app with keyboards in over one hundred Indigenous languages. It’s available for use on Facebook Chat and more recently as an iPhone, iPad and iTouch app.<br><br>
“It’s important for our youth to know that we can adapt inside our language and still have a history,” said Pena Elliott of the Tsartlip First Nation in British Columbia. “To find out who we are as people by using modern technology as a tool to teach.”<br>
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