Inuktitut (North Baffin dialect) developed by Mick Mallon and
his partner at Arctic College, Nunatta Caus, Iqaluit NWT. A
grammar supplement, again designed to accompany a college course for
non-speakers.
{should have mentioned, the Yup'ik program was developed at
Kuskokwim Campus, College of Rural Alaska, University of Alaska,
in Bethel by Barry Sponder, George Marshall, and Oscar Alexie}
Aleut (Pribilof dialect) developed under contract by Alice Taff,
a very short introduction to some of the grammar.
Deg Xinag (a.k.a. Ingalik Athabaskan), also under development by
Alice Taff, again a grammatically oriented program.
I believe Alice is also working on an Eastern Aleut program now
as well.
I am in contact with Patrick McConvell, a fellow linguistic anthro-
pologist at Northern Territory Univ in Darwin, Australia. He and I
are exchanging disks. We sem to be developing a protocal for use and
copying. Perhaps Nat-Lang would be a good place to discuss this.
The people involved with the above four programs don't mind if others
copy them for their own, non-commercial use, as long as new users don't
modify them and re-issue them under their own names! All the people
who developed these four were either doing it as salaried
employees of public institutions, were working under contractr to
develop them, and/or were doing it for love of the languages.
Since we can never hop;e (in my opinion) for a huge commercial
market to exist (as there is with Languages of Wider Communication),
then it seems to me that anything which spreads the use of the
languages directly, or inspires others with their languages, is
of benefit to all.
I would like to invite discussion on two points. I will be happy
to compile replies and share it with the whole net, if people want
to reply directly to me [ffri@aurora.alaska.edu is best].
Question No. 1: What do people think about my proposed protocal for
sharing indigenous language HyperCard programs freely, with the
developers permission?
Question No. 2: Would people like me to compile a file of Native
language HyperCard programs? If people want to, I could likewise
compile a list on availability, and then post it back to the BBS.
--roy--
Roy Iutzi-Mitchell
Antharopology & Linguistics
Kuskokwim Campus, University of Alaska
Bethel, Alaska
(please pardon my typing; I'm keyboarding this in directly)