FirstVoices
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FirstVoices is a world wide web-based project to support Aboriginal peoples engaged in the teaching and archiving of language and culture.[1] It is a project of the First Peoples' Cultural Foundation, an Aboriginal-directed non-profit society based in Victoria, British Columbia.[2] The FPCF is a sister organization of the First Peoples' Heritage, Language and Culture Council[2] (a British Columbia Crown corporation).[3]
The FirstVoices.com website hosts a language archive, launched in 2003,[4] containing thousands of text entries in many Aboriginal writing systems, as well as sound files, pictures, videos and games.[1] Some archives are publicly accessible, but others are password-protected at the request of the language community.[1] Among the languages archived on the site is the Ditidaht language, which had gone nearly extinct by 2006, but is being actively revived by the Ditidaht First Nation.[5]
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ a b c What is FirstVoices. FirstVoices.com. Retrieved on 2006-12-01.
- ^ a b About Us. First Peoples' Cultural Foundation. Retrieved on 2006-12-01.
- ^ About FPHLCC. First Peoples' Heritage, Language and Culture Council. Retrieved on 2006-12-01.
- ^ Language Services. First Peoples' Cultural Foundation. Retrieved on 2006-12-01.
- ^ Kwong, Matthew. (2006-07-22). "Standing by their words". The Globe and Mail.
[edit] Further reading
- FirstVoices and the Mac help preserve Aboriginal languages. Apple.com. Retrieved on 2006-12-01.
- Modern technology preserving aboriginal languages. Yukon Government (2004-12-09). Retrieved on 2006-12-01.
- Funding helps preserve Aboriginal languages. British Columbia Ministry of Community, Aboriginal and Women's Services (2005-04-03). Retrieved on 2006-12-01.
- First Voices - Protecting the past with the future. Yukon Government (2005-11-04). Retrieved on 2006-12-01.
