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</div><div class="photocaption" style="font-size:11px;color:rgb(123,123,123);padding-left:5px;padding-right:5px;clear:both">Kathy Manuel, education co-ordinator with the Secwepemc Cultural Education Society, demonstrates use of a Nintendo device.</div>
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NOVEMBER 29, 2012 <br><br><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0)">BY MIKE YOUDS<br>DAILY NEWS STAFF REPORTER<br></span></div><span class="articlebodylist"><p style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;font-size:0.8em;line-height:18px">
With as few as 150 fluent Secwepemctsin speakers remaining, most of them over age 65, the Secwepemc Cultural Education Society has come up with software for preserving the language.</p><p style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;font-size:0.8em;line-height:18px">
Nintendo DSi software that teaches Secwepemctsin to young children is in the final stage of development, said Kathy Manuel, education co-ordinator with the society.</p><p style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;font-size:0.8em;line-height:18px">
As well, an iPad application expected to be available by Christmas holds even greater promise in preserving the endangered language, she said.</p><p style="font-family:Verdana,Geneva,sans-serif;font-size:0.8em;line-height:18px">
"This one is for everybody," Manuel said on Wednesday while demonstrating technology that will be available through the society and the B.C.-based indigenous languages website FirstVoices.com. "The Nintendo is kid-oriented but this is for everybody."</p>
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