Survey of Native American / First Nations language use on Facebook

[Julia Sallabank]

One of my students told me there is a way to post audioclips on Facebook
using a website called 'Vocaroo' (which I had never heard of before):
http://vocaroo.com/
Recordings are made there and then the link is posted on the Facebook page.
The student commented: "While I think this is a good strategy adopted by
the learners, it also is slightly problematic because I'm not sure exactly
what happens to recordings made on Vocaroo in the long-term. It seems
prudent to me to try and keep learners' production somewhere a bit safer as
well, especially since these recordings might conceivably constitute
valuable data for studies of language change."


On 23 September 2014 16:18, Wayne Leman <wleman1949b at gmail.com> wrote:

>   I have often wished that it would make it easier for indigenous
> languages to be use orally on Facebook. There are many speakers of
> indigenous languages, including in the Americas, whose primary use of their
> language is oral rather than literate. Facebook does not permit mp3 files
> to be posted. It would help oral communication on Facebook if they could
> be. Of course, it would help most if there were some easy method of
> chatting orally in indigenous languages on Facebook. Maybe there already
> is, but I have often checked and the closest thing I have found is video
> chat. And video chat takes a lot of bandwidth. I don't think there is group
> video chat yet on Facebook.
>
> Wayne
>  -----
> http://www.cheyennelanguage.org/
>



-- 
Dr. Julia Sallabank
Senior Lecturer in Language Support and Revitalisation, Endangered
Languages Academic Programme;
Convenor, MA Linguistics and MA Language Documentation and Description,
Department of Linguistics,
SOAS, University of London,
Thornhaugh Street
London WC1H 0XG
UK

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