Ontario post-secondary school launches Mohawk language learning app
A southwestern Ontario post-secondary school has launched an app to help people learn the endangered language of Mohawk.
Six Nations Polytechnic says the app, available for Apple and Android devices, is a new way to try to revitalize the language.
“The whole goal is to have our languages back in the homes where people are speaking to one another in their families, and having an app helps do that a little bit because you can take the language into the homes,” said Thomas Deer, the language program director at the school.
The app comes on the heels of the successful launch of a similar one from the school about learning the Cayuga language, which is only spoken by about 40 people on Six Nations of the Grand River territory near Hamilton, Deer said.