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Living Tongues Talking Online Dictionaries
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Talking Online Dictionaries
Living
Tongues Institute has produced or is producing a line of
Talking Online Dictionaries for a range of languages. The
original one was built for Tuvan, a Turkic language of
Siberia. The Tuvan-English online talking dictionary is
hosted on a Linux server at Swarthmore College with full
backup and RAID array redundancy. It is programmed in the
MySQL database management system, which support multi-user
access. It is a searchable, talking, on-line dictionary with
searchability functions for both English (Latin)- and Tuvan
(Cyrillic)-literate users. It currently has 7,482 lexical
entries, over 75% of which have streamable soundfiles and
about 5% have pictures. Since going live in August 2006, the
site has had over 2,500 visits. The Talking Dictionary
can be accessed by clicking the link below. The
dictionary is maintained by Dr. David Harrison at Swarthmore
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Samples from
the Ho Online Talking Dictionary The Ho-English Online
Talking Dictionary is currently under development as a pilot
project. When launched, it will support access for a Ho
speech community of over 1 million persons who are rapidly
gaining access to the internet. It will have English,
Devanagari, Oriya and Warang Chiti-literate searchability
functions. It is maintained on a Linux server at Swarthmore
College with full backup and RAID array redundancy. It is
programmed in the MySQL database management system, which
supports multi-user access.
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Siletz Dee-Ni
Online Talking Dictionary Project
Living Tongues Institute for Endangered Languages
began the Siletz Dee-Ni Online Talking Dictionary
Project in early 2006. The dictionary had restricted
access to tribal members and affiliated scholars
only. In January 2011, at the request of the tribal
council, the Talking Dictionary dropped its
password-protected entry, making all of its content
publicly accessible. All of the 12,000 words in the
Siletz Dee-ni Talking Dictionary have now been
recorded. Since September 2010, the number of
entries in the dictionary has more than doubled, and
now stands at over 10,000 entries. The rest of the
recordings will be uploaded by the year’s end. |
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Matukar
Online Talking Dictionary
The first online resource for the Panau language of
Matukar village in Madang Province, Papua New
Guinea. Future plans include expanding the number of
entries and adding Tok Pisin search functions |
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Chamacoco Online Talking Dictionary
The first online resource available in English on
Yshyr (Chamacoco), a Zamucoan language spoken in the
Paraguayan Chaco. Expansion of the dictionary will
also include Spanish search functions. |
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Remo Online
Talking Dictionary
The Remo online talking dictionary currently has
approximately 4,100 entries and will be uploading
more files in the near future. This is the first
searchable online record of this important South
Munda language of Orissa. |
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