mathias | September 6, 2011

According a recent ILAT: Indigenous Languages and Technology email from Craig Spaulding, one of three members of Rosetta Stone’s Endangered Language Program – the others being Marion Bittinger, Daniel Hieber and a semester or summer intern – Rosetta Stone has no plans to take on endangered languages in the future, also pointing out their overly [...]

Category: Native Languages | 2 Comments »
Tags: ACORNS, ACquisition of Restored Native Speech, Craig Spaulding, Daniel Hieber, Endangered Language Program, Grassroots Indigenous Multimedia, ILAT, Indigenous Languages and Technology, Marion Bittinger, revitalization, Rosetta Stone, Rosetta Stone's Endangered Language Program, Transparent Languages

mathias | June 6, 2011

Navajo code talking veterans Chee Willeto, Keith Little (president of the Navajo Code Talkers Association), and Bill Toledo were honored with medallions from Las Cruces official during a special Memorial Day ceremony. Wreaths were thrown in the Rio Grande for those who died, and flags were posted at the graves of many at Hillcrest Memorial [...]

Category: Navajo (Diné) | 1 Comment »
Tags: Arizona, Bill Toledo, ceremony, Chee Willeto, Chillicothe Gazette, Choctaw, code talkers, Hillcrest Memorial Cemetary, Keith Little, Las Cruces, Loren Genson, Margaret Speas, Navajo, Navajo code talkers, Navajo Interpreter Training Institute, New Mexico, Rio Grande, Rosetta Stone, UMASS, University of Arizona, Windtalkers (2002), World War I, World War II, WWI, WWII

mathias | February 3, 2011

As Rosetta Stone works on North Slope Alaskan languages, the NSF DEL (National Science Foundation’s Documenting Endangered Languages program) has been funding the Alutiiq Museum program Alutiiq Living Words since 2007. The project is archiving recordings from elder speakers and pairing elder speakers with semi-fluent speakers to bring them up to speed. Initiatives include a [...]

Category: Alaskan Languages, Alutiiq | No Comments »
Tags: Administration for Native Americans, Alutiiq language web portal, Alutiiq Living Words, Alutiiq New Words Council, ANA, DEL, Documenting Endangered Languages program, language implementation grant, National Science Foundation, North Slope Alaskan languages, NSF, Qik'rtarmiut Alutiit Regional Language AdvisoryCommittee, Rosetta Stone

mathias | January 20, 2011

Shortly after finishing their Navajo Rosetta Stone software (and numerous software for Native languages in the past: Mohawk, Inuktitut, Chitimacha), Anchorage News reported the Rosetta Stone (Endangered Language Program) founded in 2004 is currently working on Inupiaq language learning software. Their strategy is to send people to record sound files, then a team of three [...]

Category: Chitimacha, Inuktitut, Inupiaq, Lakota (Teton Sioux), Mohawk, Navajo (Diné) | 1 Comment »
Tags: Alaska, Chitimacha, Endangered Language Program, immersion, Inuktitut, Inupiac, Jan Ullrich, Lakota, Lakota Language Consortium, Mohawk, Navajo, pedagogy, Pine Ridge, Rosetta Stone, software, Southwest