Whistled speech in a non tonal language consists of the natural emulation of vocalic and consonantal qualities in a simple modulated whistled signal. This special speech register represents a natural telecommunication system that enables high levels of sentence intelligibility by trained speakers. It is not directly intelligible to naïve listeners. Yet, it is easily learned by speakers of the l...

The West End Revitalization Association (WERA) cultivated strategies for assessing environmental hazards, managing stakeholder participation, and implementing corrective actions in three low-income African American communities in Mebane, North Carolina. The community voices evolved into language to drive WERA's "Right to Basic Amenities Movement" as a way to address health, legal, and quality-o...

Although 1.4 million people speak Northern Khmer in Thailand, they are aware that their language is still in decline. To deal with this threat, native speakers have cooperated with linguists from Mahidol University to work on a community-based research project since 2007. Teaching the Northern Khmer language as a subject in the formal school system was the first project which started at Ban Pho...

This project approaches the problem of language documentation and revitalization from a rather untraditional angle. To improve and facilitate language documentation of endangered languages, we attempt to use corpus linguistic methods and speech and language technologies to reduce the time needed for transcription and annotation of audio and video language recordings. The paper demonstrates this...

In this article, the authors explore how mobile learning can complement Certificate of Indigenous Languages program at University Saskatchewan in Western Canada. Through FRAME model analysis, extract salient cultural, pedagogical, environmental, and technological characteristics that should be considered development tools approaches for Cree language teachers. It is hoped article will stimulate...

Tohono O’odham (formerly Papago), a Native American language spoken in southern Arizona and northern Mexico, has been frequently reported as endangered. The article aims to present efforts revitalize stabilize the (and its culture), particularly activities of Ofelia Zepeda, who is member Indian Nation. Zepeda professor linguistics at University Tucson contributing revival her mother tongue, pri...