Language Empowerment

Overview

For many languages, this is a critical step of creating a writing system (orthography), developing fonts, and building a foundational dictionary (lexicon). For oral and sign language traditions, this involves documenting the language's grammar and key terminology.

Recommended Tools & Resources

Written TranslationOral TranslationSign Language

Written (Literate) Translation

Keyman

Keyman helps you type in over 2000 languages on just about any device — Windows, macOS, Linux, iPhone, iPad, Android tablets and phones, and even instantly in your web browser.

Speech Analyzer

A computer program for acoustic analysis of speech sounds. Analyze the phonetic sounds of spoken languages through fundamental frequency, spectrographic and spectral analysis, and duration measurements in order to facilitate orthography development and more.

Phonology Assistant

Following initial research into the phonetic sounds present in a language, research is needed to determine how these sounds occur, in order to develop a writing system that is as simple as possible to read and write.Phonology Assistant takes phonetic data that has been collected from speakers of a language and charts the sounds, helping the user to discover patterns and rules that govern the sounds of the language.