Native speakers and Fresno State linguists release online Chukchansi speaking dictionary

October 21, 2023.Reading time 7 minutes.

Dr. Niken Adisasmito-Smith poses for a photo.

After 14 years of working with native speakers, the Department of Linguistics has released a new Chukchansi language online speaking dictionary which contains recorded pronunciations by native speaker and tribal elder Dr. Holly Blossom Wyatt.

Helping Revitalize Endangered Native Languages

August 20, 2016.Reading time 8 minutes.

Pictured above: Brian Moran, right, with Martha Birdbear, one of the Hidatsa speakers in North Dakota. UPDATE, Aug. 20, 2016: From KVPR’s “Valley Edition”: Linguistics professors and students at Fresno State are hard at work on a mammoth task – saving the language of the Chukchansi tribe of Mono Indians. One thing makes their task especially […]