This paper adapts the framework of Endangered Language Computer Aided Language Learning (EL CALL) from Ward and Genabith (2003) and applies it to examples of digital tools used in the reawakening of the Tunica language. It also proposes that in community-based language reawakening projects, linguistic fieldwork takes place in the archives and museums where historical linguistic documentation is housed, while the analysis of field data is done with the community.

Published in May 2023, the Tunica Language Textbook (Rowintaworu Luhchi Yoroni) is the result of over 10 years of work by the Tunica Language Working Group (Kuhpani Yoyani Luhchi Yoroni), a collaboration between the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana and Tulane University. This talk examines some of the challenges and successes during the creation, editing, and publication of the Tunica Language Textbook.

This presentation explores how the Tunica Language Working Group has responded to the community’s desire to access and engage with historical Tunica language documentation, and the successes and challenges of publicly presenting the language documentation transcribed, parsed, and analyzed in SIL’s Fieldworks Language Explorer (FLEx).

This talk discusses the structure of the Tunica revitalization effort and the methods that are used to maximize the effectiveness of a five-person Language & Culture Revitalization Program and a small group of linguistics volunteers.

A collaboration between the Tunica-Biloxi Language & Culture Revitalization Program (LCRP) and Tulane University’s Interdisciplinary Program in Linguistics working to revitalize the Tunica language.

Work on English dialects and their phenomena.

An effort to document and analyze the varieties of French spoken in Louisiana.