Aboriginal languages finding new life with technology (fwd link)

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*Aboriginal languages finding new life with technology
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Arik Ligeti, Global News : Wednesday, October 24, 2012 6:00 PM

TORONTO - Census data released today shows a slight decline in aboriginal
speakers in Canada, but efforts are being made to revitalize aboriginal
languages.

One innovative project is FirstVoices Chat, a free texting app with
keyboards in over one hundred Indigenous languages. It’s available for use
on Facebook Chat and more recently as an iPhone, iPad and iTouch app.

“It’s important for our youth to know that we can adapt inside our language
and still have a history,” said Pena Elliott of the Tsartlip First Nation
in British Columbia. “To find out who we are as people by using modern
technology as a tool to teach.”

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