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Indigenous Language Institute

This site is dedicated to the promotion of Native North American languages, especially in providing a means by which these can be used on the internet. Languagegeek provides fonts and keyboard layouts which try to cover all of the glyphs (alphabetical letters/Syllabics) necessary for writing the Native languages on the continent. Syllabics (Algonquian, Athapaskan, Inuit, Cherokee) take centre stage with type faces in several different styles. Fonts are also available for those languages which use a Roman orthography. Please visit our partners at the Indigenous Language Institute!

To view the fonts (for both Mac and Windows) select either Fonts on the green menu at the top of every page, or navigate via the Site Map/Contents panel on this home page. The «General» page has important information about how the fonts work, and the «Download» page has the fonts themselves (all free) as well as shows examples of each font in several Native languages. Everything on this site follows the international Unicode standard where possible. Unicode is of huge benifit to Native languages, as it puts and end to needing language-specific fonts. Now all languages can be typed, read, printed, emailed, published, and put on the web using the same Unicode fonts. There is lots of help in Languagegeek’s FAQ section, please check here if you run into any problems, or you can always contact me directly be email.

Reading Native languages on-line or in email is a matter of simply downloading and installing the font or fonts. To type most of the languages, a special keyboard layout is required. Languagegeek provides keyboard layouts (for both Mac and Windows) for many Native language orthographies, and the list is always growing. To see the full list of keyboards, select Keyboards > List of all keyboards on this site from this site’s green menu. Or click on the Keyboards available link in the Site Map/Contents panel. Follow the links until you find the keyboard layout for your language. Please have a look at the installation instructions on the keyboard layout download pages, there are useful step-by-step walkthroughs to help you with the installation process.

Also of interest are the specific language pages, which present the sounds of the language in its various orthographies, along with a brief description of the language and its writing systems. Accompanying texts in the language are included in most cases. The Languages section of the green menu will take you to these language pages, or select North American Languages from the Site Map/Contents pane.

Please contact me if your language is not represented on this site. I often work together with First Nations’ educators and language specialists across North America to create Native language software.

This site is of course, in a constant state of construction, so there might be dead links. Please forgive any inconveniences. The menu system above was provided by Andy Woolley - Copyright 2003 (c) Milonic Solutions Limited. All Rights Reserved. Please visit this website at http://www.milonic.co.uk/ for more information.