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DigiKeili – Language Learning Application for

Nganasan

Prof. Markku Turunen

University of Tampere, Finland
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Digikieli

• Language belonging to Uralic Samoyedic Family spoken in

Northern Russia
• As per 2010 data, it was spoken by only 120 Nganasan people.
• Digikieli Project aims to digitize this endangered language.
• Developing digital tools to learn and preserve it
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Target User Groups

• Primary school children aged 6-12 years old.

• Familiarity with Russian language.
• The ethnic community wants to pass on the language to
younger generation.
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Design Challenges and Solutions

• Target user group is not easily accessible.

• Limited language related resources.
• DigiKieli Application has adopted local customs and icons
in the representations and examples.
• Use of audio and visual icons to help with learning.
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DigiKieli Application

• Learning the
alphabets through
sounds
• Learning to write
the alphabets and
numbers
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DigiKieli Application

Sounds

• Provides a variety of
learning lessons Numbers

• Option to record words Verbs/Actions

and hear the spoken

word
• Monitor Progress of
mastering the lessons
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DigiKieli Application

• Local folk-tales and

examples to learn words
and actions
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Thank you…