FirstVoices celebrates its 20th anniversary on International Mother Language Day with the announcement of a new site design and added features. The First Peoples’ Cultural Council launched FirstVoices.com 20 years ago as a joint initiative with the First Peoples’ Cultural Foundation. This Indigenous-led technology makes language revitalization tools accessible to all B.C. First Nations. In…
Supported by FPCC’s Language Technology Program, c̓išaaʔatḥ(Tseshaht) Knowledge Holders and the Tseshaht First Nation Language Team combined digitization and FirstVoices projects to greatly expand their c̓išaaʔatḥ FirstVoices site. The Tseshaht Language Team’s work is a great example of how FPCC’s Language Technology Program (LTP) is supporting language revitalization in communities. LTP provides funding, equipment and…
The c̓išaaʔatḥ (Tseshaht) First Nation’s Language team has been able to streamline its FirstVoices and Digitization grant work through the new FPCC Language Technology Program (LTP), which supports digital language revitalization work. With funding and training through the new program, the c̓išaaʔatḥ Knowledge Holders and the Tseshaht First Nation Language team have been adding words…
The first year of the International Decade of Indigenous Languages 2022-2032 celebrates how technology supports language revitalization. A great example of this can be found right here in B.C. with St̓át̓imc grizzly bears and FirstVoices. Community members from St̓át̓imc First Nation are using their Northern St̓át̓imcets language site on FirstVoices.com, in efforts to recover a…
Ditidaht Kids video game takes players on cultural journey as a new tool for language revitalization. Indigenous technologies grow from all aspects of life and rely on skill, creative thinking and a deep understanding of our environment. FPCC is celebrating the launch of Ditidaht Kids, a video game released by the Ditidaht First Nation that takes players on a cultural journey through ditidaqiic̓aq disib̓aʔk (Ditidaht territory) while…
The Ts’msyen Sm’algya̱x Language Authority launched the new Sm’algya̱x FirstVoices site and mobile app, a collaborative project between Knowledge Holders, educators, linguists and FirstVoices developers, resulting in a large collection of data to support language revitalization for those learning Sm’algya̱x. Ts’msyen Knowledge Holders and those who supported them have ensured that decades of work recording and documenting the…
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