Dictionaries for endangered languages of North America
Department of Linguistics
University of Arizona
Welcome to our website, which lets you access
dictionaries for endangered languages of North America.
Which language are you interested in?
Hiaki
Navajo
Tohono
O'odham
General resources:
- a searchable database of information on Native languages of North America (Canada and the U.S.)
- slides from our presentation "The Web-based Native Americaon Dictionary Project (March 23, 2001)
- a searchable dictionary of English (this is just a tool for developing resources for our Native American projects)
Computational resources:
Along with Terry Langendoen and Colleen Figzgerald we've been developing an XML scheme for Native American dictionaries (note: these resources are very unstable).
- Sample 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
Related sites:
- Some other sites that have Native American language materials are listed here and here
- Some other sites at the University of Arizona dealing with the Southwest are listed here
This work was supported by the following organizations:
- University of Arizona New Learning Environments and Instructional Technology grant program
- Sun Microsystems, Inc.
- College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
- Department of Linguistics
Our team members are:
- Maria Amarillas
- Sonya Bird
- Jose Cazares
- Mike Hammond
- Heidi Harley
- Melody Jeffcoat
- Mizuki Miyashita
- Laura Moll
- Mary Willie
- Ofelia Zepeda
For more information, contact Mike Hammond (hammond@u.arizona.edu).