Can an app help save a dying language?

Discover Magazine reported on a smartphone app than may help preserve indigenous languages and interviewed Mark Turin, a UBC anthropologist, on the topic.

Turin said the app could give endangered languages a fresh sense of purpose which is crucial in preserving and teach endangered languages.

“These things help leverage and engage people,” Turin said. “They provide new domains of use and help to bring people together around a common language, even those who don’t live together.”