Re: non-English WEB sites (was Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?)

From: "Dirk Elzinga" <dirk_elzinga@...>
Subject: Re: non-English WEB sites (was Re: Has anyone made a real conlang?)


> Hmmm. Could you actually do such a thing? That'd be a real
> accomplishment! I'm hoping after my fieldwork this summer with
> Chemehuevi (Numic/Uto-Aztecan) that we'll have at least the rudiments
> of a web site *in* Chemehuevi. We're almost decided on the writing
> system (though there are a few nagging questions still); next will be
> training the 12 remaining speakers to use it and start generating
> materials in Chemehuevi.
An interesting thought just occured to me...

I'm guessing that these twelve people are older, as the final speakers of a
language generally are, so they might not use computers themselves, but if
you can get them to (as it seems you would they do for the website), I'll
bet some of us here (me!) would enjoy learning some Chemehuevi...  And I'd
also bet that they'd be tickled pink to find someone online who wants to
write back and forth with them in their native tongue, even if only
rudimentary stuff.  Wouldn't that be something...

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