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Sep. 14th, 2018 08:09 pmThe Confederated Tribes of Grand Ronde created an Android app to teach Chinuk Wawa.
I repeat. This organization of twenty-six Turtle Island Indigenous nations, including those whose ancestral lands are now called western Oregon (including Portland), created an app to teach—well, it isn't properly any pre-European-contact indigenous language (according to Wiki), as it started life as a pidgin to facilitate trade in the Pacific Northwest and it doesn't seem to have become a creole until well after European contact. But the bulk of the vocabulary comes from one or another indigenous language, apparently predominantly Chinookan languages.
And there's an app now! So I can learn it!
I repeat. This organization of twenty-six Turtle Island Indigenous nations, including those whose ancestral lands are now called western Oregon (including Portland), created an app to teach—well, it isn't properly any pre-European-contact indigenous language (according to Wiki), as it started life as a pidgin to facilitate trade in the Pacific Northwest and it doesn't seem to have become a creole until well after European contact. But the bulk of the vocabulary comes from one or another indigenous language, apparently predominantly Chinookan languages.
And there's an app now! So I can learn it!
