This New App Created in Collaboration With the Rainy Lake Ojibwe Community Aims to Preserve Indigenous Language and Knowledge
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Motorola and the Lenovo Foundation launched 'Indigenous Collections,' a free app developed in collaboration with Rainy Lake Ojibwe elders and language teachers to revitalize Ojibwe, a language now spoken by roughly 50,000 people with a median speaker age over 70 and classified as severely endangered by UNESCO.
The app represents an important first archive; long-term language revitalization depends on sustained community adoption and intergenerational transmission.
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