Digital language reclamation underway for Tsuut?ina (fwd link)

[MJ Hardman]

We are doing something similar for both Jaqaru and Kawki, using the database
programming that we developed for Aymara on the Internet [
http://aymara.ufl.edu/].  We are starting with the tapes that were recorded
as long as 50 years ago, though most were  more in the 30 and 40 years ago,
with fluent speakers no longer with us, and we are including as much
cultural information, photos, etc., as possible, from the memory of those of
us still here, from pictures taken then, to be available to the young as
they wish to recover the language.

Dr. MJ Hardman
Doctora Honoris Causa UNMSM, Lima, Per¨²
website:  http://at.ufl.edu/~hardman-grove/



On 10/29/09 1:28 PM, "phil cash cash" <cashcash at EMAIL.ARIZONA.EDU> wrote:

> Hi Ben, nice article!  Didn't know it was you all along making the news!
> 
> (fyi, another ILAT member in the news)
> 
> later,
> Phil
> 
> Quoting phil cash cash <cashcash at email.arizona.edu>:
> 
>> > Digital language reclamation underway for Tsuut’ina
>> >
>> > OCTOBER 28, 2009 - 10:05PM
>> >
>> > The project will provide future generations of aboriginals with an
>> > audio history
>> > of their culture
>> >
>> > Conor Kerr, News Writer
>> > Canada
>> >
>> > The idea of a language becoming extinct is a far-flung idea to most people.
>> > However, on the Tsuut’ina reserve, just west of Calgary, it is
>> > reality. With no
>> > fluent speakers of the Tsuut’ina language under the age of 50, the
>> > dialect could
>> > very likely be extinct within 20–30 years.
>> >
>> > Access full article below:
>> > http://www.thegatewayonline.ca/comment/reply/5187
> 
>  
> <https://www.email.arizona.edu/horde/services/go.php?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.theg
> atewayonline.ca%2Fcomment%2Freply%2F5187> 

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