THE INTERESTING TRUTH ABOUT REVITALISATION OF INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURE THROUGH TECHNOLOGY
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- 1. THE INTERESTING TRUTH ABOUT REVITALISATION OF INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURE THROUGH TECHNOLOGY WWW.KIWADIGITAL.COM HTTPS://TWITTER.COM/RENATASAYS
- 2. A WORLD OF LANGUAGES
- 3. LANGUAGES BY SPEAKERSHIP EGIDS scale (Lewis and Simons 2010)
- 7. At KIWA Digital we bring content to new life across languages and cultures, working across the media industry in digital publishing, education technology and the post production stage of television and film production.
- 8. “Language is the carrier of information about who we are how we express ourselves and our culture. It defines our world around us”
- 10. THE INTERESTING TRUTH ABOUT REVITALISATION OF INDIGENOUS KNOWLEDGE AND CULTURE THROUGH TECHNOLOGY WWW.KIWADIGITAL.COM HTTPS://TWITTER.COM/RENATASAYS
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- The Earth’s population of seven billion people speaks roughly 7,000 languages, a statistic that would seem to offer each living language a healthy one million speakers, if things were equitable. In language, as in life, things aren’t. Seventy-eight percent of the world’s population speaks the 85 largest languages, while the 3,500 smallest languages share a mere 8.25 million speakers. Thus, while English has 328 million first-language speakers, and Mandarin 845 million, Tuvan speakers in Russia number just 235,000. Within the next century, linguists think, nearly half of the world’s current stock of languages may disappear. More than a thousand are listed as critically or severely endangered—teetering on the edge of oblivion.
- EGIDS stands for the Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale. This is a tool that is used to measure the status of a language in terms of endangerment or development. EGIDS scale (Lewis and Simons 2010) The EGIDS consists of 13 levels with each higher number on the scale representing a greater level of disruption to the intergenerational transmission of the language. Table 1 provides summary definitions of the 13 levels of the EGIDS. Table 1. Expanded Graded Intergenerational Disruption Scale Level Label Description 0 International The language is widely used between nations in trade, knowledge exchange, and international policy. 1 National The language is used in education, work, mass media, and government at the national level. 2 Provincial The language is used in education, work, mass media, and government within major administrative subdivisions of a nation. 3 Wider Communication The language is used in work and mass media without official status to transcend language differences across a region. 4 Educational The language is in vigorous use, with standardization and literature being sustained through a widespread system of institutionally supported education. 5 Developing The language is in vigorous use, with literature in a standardized form being used by some though this is not yet widespread or sustainable. 6a Vigorous The language is used for face-to-face communication by all generations and the situation is sustainable. 6b Threatened The language is used for face-to-face communication within all generations, but it is losing users. 7 Shifting The child-bearing generation can use the language among themselves, but it is not being transmitted to children. 8a Moribund The only remaining active users of the language are members of the grandparent generation and older. 8b Nearly Extinct The only remaining users of the language are members of the grandparent generation or older who have little opportunity to use the language. 9 Dormant The language serves as a reminder of heritage identity for an ethnic community, but no one has more than symbolic proficiency. 10 Extinct The language is no longer used and no one retains a sense of ethnic identity associated with the language.
- "Language is the DNA of a culture, and it is the vehicle for the traditions, customs, stories, history, and beliefs of a people… A lost language is a lost culture.” US National Endowment for the Humanities Chairman Bruce Cole
- “One language dies every 14 days. By the next century nearly half of the roughly 7,000 languages spoken on Earth will likely disappear, as communities abandon native tongues in favor of English, Mandarin, or Spanish. What is lost when a language goes silent…” Author and freelance journalist Russ Rymer
- “Preserving languages via digital media will be one of the most consequential social trends of this century… Technology alone does not doom or save languages. But pride in a language, and a willingness to creatively expand its use through technologies can certainly help save it We are all enriched by the survival of a language’s words and ideas, especially in globally accessible digital media” Linguist and specialist in language revitalization - K. David Harrison Example of this is VIKI a global TV site with TV shows, movies and other premium content, translated into more than 200 languages by a community of avid fans, With over 35 million viewers each month and over 750 million translated words, VIKI brings global prime-time entertainment to new audiences and unlocks new markets and revenue opportunities for content owners Babel The Language Magazine November 2014
- KIWA Digital At KIWA®, we pride ourselves on brining content to new life across languages and cultures, working across the media industry in digital publishing, education technology and the post production stage of television and film production. Founded in 2003 by award-winning film and television producer Rhonda Kite, the company was initially established as a post-production software company. Our first software product was Voice-Q®, a tool designed to automatically dub foreign-language dialogue in television and film production. Voice-Q® is used in studios worldwide and in 2007 it won a prestigious Hollywood Post Alliance Engineering Excellence Award. After helping to revolutionise the post-production industry, we began to look at doing the same thing for books. Despite advances in digital publishing, building e-books is still seen as a process that involves little more than creating an electronic representation of the existing text and images. We see technology as an enabler. To us, an unused feature is a missed opportunity. We go many steps further than scanning and reformatting content – we add to it and rarify it, making worlds come to life in a way authors have always wished for. Our experiential books are kinaesthetic and tactile. They are not just books; they are immersive, interactive, and instructive experiences.
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