Technology helps to preserve Indian languages (fwd)

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Technology helps to preserve Indian languages
http://www.kten.com/Global/story.asp?S=5319101

WHITE EAGLE, Okla. Technology is allowing Suzanne White Eagle to hear
her native tongue -- the Ponca language -- spoken back to her.
White Eagle, a 71-year-old Ponca tribal citizen, and 80-year-old Henry
A. Lieb Junior are among a handful of people who speak the Ponca
language.

The native speakers recordrf their language today with the help of the
Phraselator P-2. It's a handheld device capable of recording and
playing back thousands of phrases, words, songs and stories.

Tribes in Oklahoma whose languages have been recorded are the Choctaw
Nation, United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians, Comanche Nation,
Ponca Tribe and the Cheyenne-Arapaho Tribe of Oklahoma.

About a dozen tribes have already recorded their speakers and have
purchased the Phraselator.

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