LINGUIST List 22.168

Mon Jan 10 2011

Media: Apple's Initiative to Preserve Cherokee Language

Editor for this issue: Mfon Udoinyang <mfonlinguistlist.org>

        1.     Paul Chapin , Cherokee-Apple Initiative to Preserve Language
Message 1: Cherokee-Apple Initiative to Preserve Language
Date: 03-Jan-2011
From: Paul Chapin <pgchapingmail.com>
Subject: Cherokee-Apple Initiative to Preserve Language
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Apple Computer and the Cherokee Nation have been working together todevelop software to support written Cherokee on iPhones, iPods, and iPads.The aim of this initiative is to make it more attractive to Cherokeechildren to use the language.

Please read the full story at:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101223/ap_on_hi_te/us_iphone_cherokee_language

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