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New Phone Game Seeks To Preserve Endangered Australian Aboriginal Language Nyiyaparli Via DEPT
['Fredrika Stigell']
B&TB&T
To help preserve a critically endangered language, the Nyiyaparli Living Language Project (NLLP) has been launched as a smartphone game that teaches words and meanings to new generations.
Karlka Nyiyaparli Aboriginal Corporation RNTBC, representing the Nyiyaparli community, partnered with global digital agency DEPT to develop the game through a community-led process.
Nyiyaparli Widi (‘widi’ means game in Nyiyaparli) transforms language learning into a mobile experience that combines exploration gameplay with cultural education – think location-based adventure gaming meets language immersion.
The game features real words from the endangered Nyiyaparli language, spoken by Nyiyaparli senior language speakers, kids and adults,It also sees real Pilbara locations and sites of Nyiyaparli cultural significance are used as in-game missions, voices of elders passed, Senior Language speakers, parents, and kids, and “Paathupaathu Points” (respect points) earned for collecting Nyiyaparli cultural items.
Nyiyaparli Widi is now available on the Apple iOS Store and Google Play
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