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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 has had over 2,500 visits. The Talking Dictionary
can be accessed at
http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/tuvan/
and is maintained by Dr. David Harrison.
Tuvan [link to Tyvan grammar icon in Officers page]
Tuvan Online Talking Dictionary
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.
(Click
play button once or twice to open in your default audio
player. Some files are larger and may take longer to load)
Siletz Dee-Ni
Online Talking Dictionary Project
The Siletz Dee-Ni
Online Talking Dictionary Project went live in Summer 2006
and now has 488 entries, all with associated soundfiles. An
additional 500 words have been recorded and are now being
processed. The dictionary has restricted access to tribal
members and affiliated scholars only, pending tribal council
permission for broader access. It is being used by the last
speaker of Siletz Dee-ni, by affiliated scholars, and in a
classroom setting to support tribal efforts at language
learning and revitalization. It 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 supports multi-user access.
Siletz
Sound File Sample
(Click
play button once or twice to open in your default audio
player)
Siletz Sample
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