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Cherokee Nation language department reports new recordings, classroom materials and expanded master-apprentice enrollments
Summary
Howard Peyton, a representative of the Cherokee Nation Language Department, told the council the department is expanding its language preservation and teaching work, reporting several concrete metrics and recent projects.
Howard Peyton, a representative of the Cherokee Nation Language Department, told the council the department is expanding its language preservation and teaching work, reporting several concrete metrics and recent projects.
Peyton said the department has 220 participants in its online class, has recorded 1,039 audio files for its language corpus and estimates many recordings contain up to 15,000 words; staff are transcribing those files with timestamps to make them searchable and to anchor language segments in the larger corpus.
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