Session Notes: Indigenous languages online - challenges and opportunities (fwd link)

[Phillip E Cash Cash]

Session Notes: Indigenous languages online - challenges and opportunities

posted by Eduardo Avila on Jun 01, 2010

Led by Elia Varela Serra and with the participation of Ruben Hilari of the
project Jaqi Aru.

The main focus of the small breakout session was to explore the ways that
internet has helped promote the uses of indigenous languages in countries
where these languages have not had much presence online.

Ruben begins by saying that Aymara is not a new language, but perhaps it is
a new language online. Aymara has about 5,000,000 speakers around the world
and speakers of this language can be found concentrated in South America,
mostly in Bolivia, Peru, Chile, and Argentina.

The goal of the Jaqi Aru project is to increase the presence of Aymara on
the internet through 5 main activities, one of which is translations for the
Lingua project site Global Voices in Aymara. Volunteers have been
translating articles from Global Voices in Spanish for the past 7 months. In
addition, the group has a collective blog site, uses web 2.0 tools like
Facebook, Flickr, and YouTube, has been learning to subtitle videos on the
platform DotSub, and has been starting to participate in the Wikipedia in
Aymara community.

Access full article below:
http://summit2010.globalvoicesonline.org/2010/06/session-notes-indigenous-languages-online-challenges-and-opportunities/
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