mathias | May 10, 2011

The Society to Advance Indigenous Vernaculars of the United States (SAIVUS) is associated with VizLingo, a social-media company above Tumblr., which is creating the world’s first global visual language. Essentially, the program they’re inventing garnishes text with video clips, allowing word definitions (and entire worldviews) to be seen in conjunction with how they are written [...]

Category: Cherokee, Dakota (Santee Sioux, Yankton Sioux), Hawaiian, Lakota (Teton Sioux), Native Language Events, Plains Indian Sign Language | No Comments »
Tags: anthropological linguistics, Cherokee, Dakota, dialectology, documentation, Hawaiian, Lakota, language, linguistics, pedagogy, PISL, Plains Indian Sign Language, revitalization, SAIVUS, semiotics, Society to Advance Indigenous Vernaculars of the United States, sociolinguistics, technology, Tumblr., visual language, VizLingo