Update: iTunes Store offers Cherokee language revitalization application (fwd link)

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Thurs, Sept 03, 2009

Update: iTunes Store offers Cherokee language revitalization application

By Jami Custer
Staff Writer

TAHLEQUAH, Okla. –Thornton Media Inc. has developed an iTunes application that
allows the Cherokee language and other indigenous languages to be downloaded
onto handheld game consoles, MP3 players and cell phones.

Company officials – who also created RezWorld, a video game designed to
revitalize Native languages – said the language software is called Language Pal
and can program audio recordings of indigenous languages in multiple dialects.
It also allows the programming of electronic flashcards, archived recordings,
multiple choice games and thousands of audio files with searchable databases on
the Nintendo DSi, a portable game system.

“We wanted to create software that allows any tribe to program their own
language onto a quality handheld device. The Nintendo DSi is an obvious choice
because the DS series is the best-selling handheld in history,” Thornton Media
CEO Don Thornton said.

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