The purpose of this project is to develop online dictionaries of Native American languages spoken in the southwest.

O'odham (Papago) resources

• Java-based Online O'odham Dictionary
• Text-based Online O'odham Dictionary (temporarily off-line)

Navajo resources

• Not yet implemented

Hiaki (Yaqui) resources

• Preliminary English interface to the Hiaki dictionary
• Preliminary Spanish interface to the Hiaki dictionary

General resources

• Searchable database of information on Native American languages (of Canada and the U.S.)
• Slides from our presentation, March23, 2001: "The Web-based Native American Dictionary Project"
• Searchable dictionary of English. (This is just a tool for developing resources for our Native American projects.)

General computational resources

• dtd file
• preliminary minilexicon of Navajo using this scheme
• We're also working on integrated user interfaces, using a common programming scheme. Here is a demo

This project has been supported by:

• University of Arizona New Learning Environments and Instructional Technology grant program
• Sun Microsystems, Inc.
• College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
• Department of Linguistics

Current and former team members:

• Maria Amarillas
• Sonya Bird
• Mike Hammond
• Heidi Harley
• Melody Jeffcoat
• Mizuki Miyashita
• Laura Moll
• Mary Willie
• Ofelia Zepeda

Related sites:

• There are a number of other sites that have Native American language materials. Some of them are listed here.
• There are a number of other sites at the U. of Arizona dealing with the Southwest. A number of them are listed here.