Doris Jean Lamar, 82, is the last living person who can speak fluently the language of the Wichita Indians. Lamar, who lives in Anadarko, Ok., learned to speak the language from her grandmother.
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- Endangered Language Fund ELF was founded ten years ago with the goal of supporting endangered language preservation and documentation projects. Our main mechanism for supporting work on endangered languages has been funding grants to individuals, tribes, and museums. 0
- The Longnow Foundation's Rosetta Project The Rosetta Project is The Long Now Foundation’s first exploration into very long-term archiving. It serves as a means to focus attention on the problem of digital obsolescence, and ways we might address that problem through creative archival storage meth 0
- The Rosetta Stone native language project The Rosetta Stone Endangered Language Program works with native groups to customize Rosetta Stone software for exclusive use in language revitalization. Each revitalization project builds on the company’s mission to help people improve their lives and mak 0
#1 by cmoreno at November 1st, 2009
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connect this, and this:
Students Learning how to make online videos.
http://edisongarden.blogspot.com/2009/08/teachers-learning-how-to-make-videos.html
and you’ve basically got the scope of the native language project.