FirstVoices

FirstVoices

FirstVoices is a world wide web-based project to support Aboriginal peoples engaged in the teaching and archiving of language and culture.cite web | url = http://www.firstvoices.com/scripts/WebObjects.exe/FirstVoices.woa/wa/file?/about.html | accessdate = 2006-12-01 | title = What is FirstVoices | publisher = FirstVoices.com] It is a project of the First Peoples' Cultural Foundation that is administered by the First Peoples' Heritage, Language and Culture Council, an Aboriginal-directed crown corporation based in Brentwood Bay, British Columbia.

The FirstVoices.com website hosts a language archive, launched in 2003,cite web | url = http://www.fpcf.ca/language-index.html | accessdate = 2006-12-01 | title = Language Services | publisher = First Peoples' Cultural Foundation] containing thousands of text entries in many Aboriginal writing systems, as well as sound files, pictures, videos and games. Some archives are publicly accessible, but others are password-protected at the request of the language community. 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.Kwong, Matthew. (2006-07-22). " [http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060722.BCLANGUAGE/TPStory/TPNational/?page=rss&id=GAM.20060722.BCLANGUAGE Standing by their words] ". The Globe and Mail.]

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Further reading

*cite web | url = http://www.apple.com/ca/education/profiles/firstvoices/ | accessdate = 2006-12-01 | title = FirstVoices and the Mac help preserve Aboriginal languages | publisher = Apple.com
*cite web | url = http://www.gov.yk.ca/news/2004/04-290.html | accessdate = 2006-12-01 | title = Modern technology preserving aboriginal languages | date = 2004-12-09 | publisher = Yukon Government
*cite web | url = http://www2.news.gov.bc.ca/nrm_news_releases/2005MCAWS0040-000412.htm | accessdate = 2006-12-01 | title = Funding helps preserve Aboriginal languages | date = 2005-04-03 | publisher = British Columbia Ministry of Community, Aboriginal and Women's Services
*cite web | url = http://www.gov.yk.ca/news/2005/05-288.html | accessdate = 2006-12-01 | title = First Voices - Protecting the past with the future | date = 2005-11-04 | publisher = Yukon Government

External links

* [http://www.firstvoices.com FirstVoices.com]


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