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human services. “It’s a tragic situation.” Outside the Grimmers’ trailer on Thursday, neighbo rs gathered to pray for the family. Standing next to a memorial of balloons and teddy bears, one mot her spoke of the sunflower bookmark Ms. Grimmer ha d drawn for her. Santiago Morantes Jr., 16, recall ed seeing Ms. Grimmer, Ramie and Tim walking to th e post office one morning. He remembered it becaus e he noticed all three of them were barefoot. ~~~~~~~~~~ <strong>NYT</strong>-1210: VENTURES Everyone Speaks Text Message ... By TINA ROSENBERG Is technology killing indigenous languages or savi ng them? Well, you may soon be able to text in N'K o. ===== notyet (long) When Ibrahima Traore takes his sons to a park in M ontclair, N.J., he often sits on a bench and reads . He reads English, French and Arabic, but most of the time he reads N’Ko, a language few speakers o f those languages would recognize. N’Ko is the sta ndardized writing system for Mande languages, a fa mily of closely related tongues — among them Traor e’s language of Mandinka, but also Jula, Bamana, K oyaga, Marka — spoken, for the most part, in eight West African countries, by some 35 million people . N’Ko looks like a cross between Arabic and ancie nt Norse runes, written from right to left in a bl ocky script with the letters connected underneath. Traore types e-mail to his family on his laptop i n N’Ko, works on his Web site in N’Ko, tweets in N ’Ko on his iPhone and iPad and reads books and new spapers written in N’Ko to prepare for the N’Ko cl asses he teaches in the Bronx and for his appearan ces on an Internet radio program to discuss cultur al issues around the use of N’Ko. For years, the Web’s lingua franca was English. Sp eakers of French, Hindi and Urdu, Arabic, Chinese
and Russian chafed at the advantage the Internet g ave not only American pop culture but also its lan guage. For those who lived at the intersection of modern technology and traditional cultures, the pr oblem was even worse. “For a long time, technology was the enemy,” says Inee Slaughter, executive di rector of the New Mexico-based Indigenous Language Institute, which teaches Native Americans and oth er indigenous peoples how to use digital technolog ies to keep their languages vital. Heritage langua ges were being killed off by increasing urbanizati on, the spread of formal education and the shift t o cash crops, which ended the isolation of indigen ous communities. Advances in technology seemed to intensify the decline. “Even in 1999 or 2000, peop le were saying technology killed their language,” Slaughter says. “Community elders worried about it . As television came into homes, English became pe rvasive 24/7. Mainstream culture infiltrated, and young kids want to be like that. It was a huge, hu ge problem, and it’s still there. But now we know ways technology can be helpful.” For many tiny, endangered languages, digital techno logy has become a lifeline. When Traore was born, N’Ko had already been in use for several years. But growing up, he did not kno w it existed. At 6, he was sent from his village o f Kiniebakoro in rural Guinea to live with a broth er in Ivory Coast, where he learned to read and wr ite in French, the language taught in school in bo th countries. He never saw a book, newspaper, medi cine label, store name or street sign in N’Ko. And yet, N’Ko was invented to allow Mande speakers like Traore to read and write in the languages th ey spoke at home. In 1943, Solomana Kante, a teach er’s son who worked as a merchant in Ivory Coast, resolved to develop a written form for the Mande l anguage family. (N’Ko means “I say” in Manden lang uages; speakers of Manden languages can typically
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