List of endangered languages with mobile apps
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This is a list of endangered languages with mobile apps available for use in language revitalization.
Endangered Australian languages with mobile apps
{{See also|Australian Aboriginal languages}}
- The Living Archive of Aboriginal Languages (LAAL) is a digital archive of literature in endangered languages of Australia, containing works in over forty Australian Aboriginal languages from the Northern Territory, Australia. The LAAL Reader app is available on Apple App Store and Google Play.
=Individual languages=
- Anindilyakwa language (Northern Territory) The NT Languages Anindilyakwa app provides flash cards in English and Anindilyakwa, and provides audio samples of both. Some words also include hand movements in small video clips. Available in Apple[https://apps.apple.com/us/app/ntlanguages-anindilyakwa/id585478474?mt=8 Apple App Store] and Android[https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.disparitygames.istory&hl=en Google Play]
- Barngarla language (South Australia) – A mobile app featuring a dictionary of over 3000 Barngarla words.{{Cite news|url=http://www.portlincolntimes.com.au/story/4222576/barngarla-app-to-share-language-gallery/?cs=1500|title=Barngarla app to share language {{!}} GALLERY|last=Harrison|first=Billie|date=2016-10-12|work=Port Lincoln Times|access-date=2017-05-09|language=en}}
- Erub Mer (Torres Strait Island language, Queensland){{Cite web|url=https://probonoaustralia.com.au/news/2019/03/digital-platform-saving-indigenous-languages-extinction/|title=The digital platform saving Indigenous languages from extinction|date=25 March 2019|first=Maggie|last= Coggan|website=ProBono Australia|access-date=18 January 2020}}
- Gamilaraay language (New South Wales) – The Gadjigadji mobile app available for iOS and Android.
- Iwaidja language (Northern Territory) – The Ma! Iwadja app is being used to teach the language.[http://www.promotingwebs.com/app-development/ DOBES documentation of endangered languages, Iwaidja] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150910200753/http://www.promotingwebs.com/app-development/ |date=September 10, 2015 }}
- Miriwoong language (Western Australia) – a mobile app dictionary of 1400 words and phrases
- Wiradjuri language (New South Wales) – a mobile app available for iOS, Android and a web based version.
- Yawuru language (Western Australia){{Cite web|url=https://www.thoughtworks.com/clients/yawuru-jila|title=Yawuru & Jila {{!}} ThoughtWorks|website=www.thoughtworks.com|language=en|access-date=2019-06-18}}
Endangered Oceanian languages with mobile apps
- Hawaiian language – In 2018, Duolingo added a Hawaiian language course.{{Cite web |title=Language learning app Duolingo adds Hawaiian lessons |url=https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/language-learning-app-duolingo-adds-hawaiian-lessons-n917861 |access-date=2022-08-29 |website=NBC News |date=8 October 2018 |language=en}} Resources are also available on Memrise.
Endangered Native American languages with mobile apps
{{See also|Indigenous languages of the Americas}}
- Aleut language — A course on Memrise is available.{{cite book |last=Llanes-Ortiz |first=Genner |date=2023 |title=Digital initiatives for indigenous languages |pages=101-102 |chapter=Memrise for Ume Sámi and Kristang |url=https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000387186 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240329184829/https://unesdoc.unesco.org/ark:/48223/pf0000387186 |url-status=live |archive-date=29 March 2024 |access-date=29 March 2024}}
- Arikara language{{Cite news
| last = Rudy
| first = Dan
| title = Arikara app aims to revitalize language
| work = Minot Daily News, via KansasCity.com
| accessdate = 2014-04-26
| date = 2014-04-20
| url = http://www.kansascity.com/2014/04/20/4963016/arikara-app-aims-to-revitalize.html
}}
- [https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/blackfoot/id1021082462?mt=8 Blackfoot language] - The Siksika Nation has created an app for IOS devices that can be downloaded here.
- Caddo language{{Cite web|url=http://anm-okc.blogspot.com/2010/11/caddo-language-app-now-available-on.html|title=Caddo Language App Now Available on Android Market|website=alterNative Media|access-date=2019-01-05}}
- Cherokee language – Resources available on Mango Languages{{Cite web|url=http://blog.mangolanguages.com/introducing-mangos-new-cherokee-language-course/|title=Introducing...Mango's New Cherokee Language Course.|last=Rodriguez|first=Jillian|website=blog.mangolanguages.com|language=en-us|access-date=2019-01-05}} and Memrise.{{cite news |last=Sellers |first=Caroline |date=8 June 2023 |title=Cherokee language lessons now available on two apps |url=https://kfor.com/news/local/cherokee-language-lessons-now-available-on-two-apps/ |url-status=live |agency=Kfor.com |location=Oklahoma City, Oklahoma |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230923144201/https://kfor.com/news/local/cherokee-language-lessons-now-available-on-two-apps/ |archive-date=23 September 2023 |access-date=25 March 2024 |quote=The Cherokee Nation says it partnered with an app is called “Memrise” to add 20 language lessons that can be downloaded to both iOS and Android devices.}}
- Chickasaw language
- Choctaw language — A course on Memrise is available.{{cite web |url=https://www.choctawtribalschools.com/choctawlanguage |url-status=live |title=Choctaw Language - Choctaw Tribal Schools |location=Choctaw, Neshoba County, Mississippi |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240329165810/https://www.choctawtribalschools.com/choctawlanguage |archive-date=29 March 2024 |access-date=29 March 2024}}
- Comanche language — A course on Memrise is available.{{cite press release |author=Comanche Nation Language Department |date=13 February 2019 |title=New Language Department Has Launched |url=https://comanchenation.com/departments/comanche-nation-language-department |url-status=live |location=Lawton, Oklahoma |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20240104230906/https://comanchenation.com/departments/comanche-nation-language-department |archive-date=4 January 2024 |access-date=29 March 2024 |quote=The Comanche language course has launched on the Memrise website and app and continues to be updated with new levels.}}
- Comox language — A Sliammon iPhone app was released in March 2012.{{Cite web
| title = FirstVoices Apps
| work = FirstVoices
| accessdate = 2012-10-04
| url = http://www.firstvoices.com/en/apps
}} An online dictionary, phrasebook, and language learning portal is available at FirstVoices.{{Cite web
| title = FirstVoices: Sliammon Community Portal
| accessdate = 2012-10-04
| url = http://www.firstvoices.com/en/Sliammon
}}
- Cowlitz language - The Language Conservancy has made dictionary, vocab builder, media player, and keyboard apps. {{Cite web|url=https://cowlitzsalish.org/|title=Cowlitz Salish Language Learning|website=Cowlitz Salish Language Learning|language=en-US|access-date=2024-12-03}}
- [https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/maskwacis-cree/id804404251?mt=8 Cree language app] - produced by the Maskwacis Cree of Samsun Cree Nation
- Dakota language{{Cite web|url=https://www.languageconservancy.org/news-events/2017/01/20/tlc-delivers-new-apps-for-nakoda-dakota-language-learners/|title=TLC delivers new apps for Nakoda & Dakota languages|date=2017-01-20|website=The Language Conservancy|language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-05}}
- Haida language — A Skidegate Haida language app is available for iPhone, based on a "bilingual dictionary and phrase collection {{sic|comprised |hide=y|of}} words and phrases archived at the online Aboriginal language database FirstVoices.com."
{{Cite web
| title = FirstVoices: Hlg̱aagilda X̱aayda Kil Welcome Page
| accessdate = 2013-01-19
| url = http://www.firstvoices.com/en/Hlgaagilda-Xaayda-Kil
}}
- Halkomelem language — A Halkomelem iPhone app was released in 2011.{{Cite web
|last = Hul
|first = Stephen
|title = FirstVoices apps bring B.C. First Nations languages to iPhone
|work = Straight.com, Vancouver's online source
|accessdate = 2012-10-21
|date = 2012-12-15
|url = https://www.straight.com/article-364821/vancouver/firstvoices-apps-bring-bc-first-nations-languages-iphone
|url-status = dead
|archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20121102033208/http://www.straight.com/article-364821/vancouver/firstvoices-apps-bring-bc-first-nations-languages-iphone
|archivedate = 2012-11-02
}}
| title = iDecolonize: A Review of Indigenous Language-Learning Apps
| work = Rising Voices
| accessdate = 2013-12-22
| date = 2013-06-21
| url = http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/blog/2013/06/21/idecolonize-a-review-of-indigenous-language-learning-apps/
}}
- Konkow language
- Kutenai language — A Kutenai language app, Ktunaxa is available at the FirstVoices website.
{{Cite web
| title = FirstVoices: Ktunaxa Community Portal
| accessdate = 2012-07-08
| url = http://www.firstvoices.com/en/Ktunaxa
| title = British Columbia aboriginal communities using technology to bring endangered languages back from the brink - thestar.com
| website = Toronto Star
| date = 4 May 2012
| accessdate = 2012-07-08
| url = https://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/1173252--british-columbia-aboriginal-communities-using-technology-to-bring-endangered-languages-back-from-the-brink
}}
- Lakota language{{Cite web|url=https://lakhota.org/mobile-apps/|title=Mobile Apps|website=Lakota Language Consortium|language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-05}}
- Lillooet language
- Luiseño language
- Mandan language{{Cite web|url=http://www.mandanlanguage.org/news/mandan-vocab-builder/|title=Mandan Vocab Builder|website=MHA Language Project - Mandan|language=en-US|access-date=2019-01-05}}
- Navajo language — A Duolingo course is available.{{Cite web |title=Learn a language for free |url=https://www.duolingo.com/course/nv/en/Learn-Navajo |access-date=2022-08-29 |website=Duolingo}} Resources are also available on Memrise.{{cite news |last=Croissant|first=Morgane |date=4 March 2022 |title=5 Languages on the Brink of Extinction That You Can Learn Online |url=https://matadornetwork.com/read/endangered-languages-learn-online/ |url-status=live |agency=Matador Network |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231130170446/https://matadornetwork.com/read/endangered-languages-learn-online/ |archive-date=30 November 2023 |access-date=25 March 2024}}
- Nisga’a language
- Nisqually language - The Language Conservancy has made a keyboard app
- Nuu-chah-nulth language
- Nheengatu{{Cite web|url=https://notaterapia.com.br/2022/09/13/nheengatu-app-universitaria-cria-aplicativo-para-o-ensino-de-lingua-indigena-ameacada-de-extincao/|title='Nheengatu app': universitária cria aplicativo para o ensino de língua indígena ameaçada de extinção|date=2022-09-13|accessdate=2023-02-21|lang=pt-br}}
- Ojibwe language
- Potawatomi language — A course on Memrise is available.{{cite press release |last=Neely |date=16 December 2023 |title=Language update: February 2023 |url=https://www.potawatomi.org/blog/2023/02/16/language-update-february-2023/ |url-status=live |location=Shawnee, Oklahoma |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230924064636/https://www.potawatomi.org/blog/2023/02/16/language-update-february-2023/ |archive-date=24 September 2023 |access-date=29 March 2024 |quote=We also have two courses at memrise.com. One called “A Day in the Life” and the other “Conversational Potawatomi.” They can be found after signing up on Memrise then searching for Potawatomi.}}
- Quinault language - The Language Conservancy has made a vocab builder app
- Saanich dialect
- Seneca language — As of January 2013, a Seneca language app was under development.{{Cite news
|last=Diana Louise Carter
|title=Want to speak Seneca? There's an app for that
|work=Press & Sun-Bulletin
|accessdate=2013-01-12
|date=2013-01-07
|url=http://revlift.com/
|url-status=dead
|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20141025075615/http://revlift.com/
|archivedate=October 25, 2014
- [https://apps.apple.com/ca/app/stoney-nakoda-language/id1277175527?mt=8 Stoney Nakoda language] - this app was produced by the Stoney Nakoda Nation.
- Tahltan language - The Language Conservancy has made a dictionary app
- Tanacross language
- Tlingit language{{cite web |last1=AppAdvice Staff |title=Yakutat Tlingit by Thornton Media, Inc. |url=https://appadvice.com/app/yakutat-tlingit/1163942042 |website=AppAdvice |access-date=25 March 2021 |language=en}}{{cite news |last1=Chavis |first1=Chavis |title=Want to learn Tlingit? There's a new app for that. |url=https://www.ktoo.org/2016/08/31/want-learn-tlingit-theres-new-app/ |access-date=25 March 2021 |work= |publisher=KTOO FM |date=31 August 2016}}
- Tłı̨chǫ language
- Upper Kuskokwim language
- Winnebago language
Endangered European languages with mobile apps
- Cornish language — There is a dedicated app.{{Cite web|url=https://gocornish.org/all-learners/apps/ |title=Apps |website=Go Cornish |access-date=30 September 2022}} Resources are also available on Memrise.
- Irish language — Several courses are available on Drops, Duolingo and Memrise.{{cite journal |last1=Katinskaia |first1=Anisia |last2=Yangarber |first2=Roman |date= |title=Digital cultural heritage and revitalization of endangered Finno-Ugric languages |url=https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2084/paper9.pdf |journal=Proceedings of the Digital Humanities in the Nordic Countries 3rd Conference |doi= |access-date=29 March 2024 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231126043236/https://ceur-ws.org/Vol-2084/paper9.pdf |archive-date=26 November 2023 |quote=Memrise is a learning platform for courses created by users, and it includes several courses in Irish and Welsh.}}{{cite web|title= Learn Irish. Language learning made easy.|url= https://languagedrops.com/language/learn-irish|website=Drops}}{{cite web|title= Irish fastest growing language on Duolingo app|url= https://amp.rte.ie/amp/1186111/|website=RTÉ|date=23 December 2020|access-date=29 May 2025}}
- Low German — PlattinO App to learn the east frisisan variety. The app was released by the {{lang|de|Ostfrisische Landschaft}}.{{Cite web |date=2021-05-25 |title=PlattinO – neue Sprachlern-App aus Ostfriesland {{!}} Niederdeutschsekretariat und Bundesraat för Nedderdüütsch |url=https://www.niederdeutschsekretariat.de/plattino-neue-sprachlern-app-aus-ostfriesland/ |access-date=2022-08-30 |language=de-DE}}{{Cite web |title=PLATTDÜÜTSK - Ostfriesische Landschaft |url=https://www.ostfriesischelandschaft.de/8.html |access-date=2022-08-30 |website=www.ostfriesischelandschaft.de|date=22 March 2022 }} ALWiNE released by the University of Greifswald for the Mecklenburgish-West Pomeranian variety.{{Cite web |title=Softwaregestütztes Plattdeutschlernen mit ALWiNE und Quizlet - Universität Greifswald |url=https://www.uni-greifswald.de/studium/ansprechpartner/qualitaet-in-studium-und-lehre/projekt-interstudies/projekt-interstudies-2-2017-2020/digitalisierung-in-der-hochschullehre/lehre-hgw-40/softwaregestuetztes-plattdeutschlernen-mit-alwine-und-quizlet/ |access-date=2022-08-30 |website=www.uni-greifswald.de}}
- Manx language{{Cite web|url=http://www.culturevannin.im/page_288619.html |title=Mobile & Web Apps {{!}} Culture Vannin {{!}} Isle of Man |website=www.culturevannin.im |access-date=2018-01-05}}
- Söl'ring dialect — Mobile friendly web app at [https://friisk.org friisk.org] was released in 2018 for translations, conjugations, and pronunciations.
- Ume Sámi – a course created by the speech community on Memrise.{{cite news |last=Young |first=Holly |date=22 December 2014 |title=Reindeer herders, an app and the fight to save a language |url=https://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/dec/22/-sp-reindeer-herders-an-app-and-the-fight-to-save-a-language |url-status=live |work=The Guardian |location=London |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221024022418/https://www.theguardian.com/education/2014/dec/22/-sp-reindeer-herders-an-app-and-the-fight-to-save-a-language |archive-date=24 October 2022 |access-date=25 March 2024 |quote=The Memrise learning app is a platform that allows users to input words or phrases and create their own language course. The Ume Sami community began to use the app without the company’s knowledge and are now experimenting with using video clips to capture correct pronunciation and inject character into the online documentation of the language.}}
- Welsh language — Several courses are available on Memrise.
- Yiddish language – Resources are available on Memrise.
References
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External links
- [http://firstvoices.com FirstVoices.com]
- [http://rising.globalvoicesonline.org/blog/2013/06/21/idecolonize-a-review-of-indigenous-language-learning-apps/ A review of indigenous language learning apps]
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