{"id":27321,"date":"2020-02-17T21:22:52","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T01:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/urelles.com\/audio-how-virtual-reality-can-preserve-the-innu-language\/"},"modified":"2025-03-25T12:58:51","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T16:58:51","slug":"audio-how-virtual-reality-can-preserve-the-innu-language","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.urelles.com\/en\/magazine\/inclusion-en\/audio-how-virtual-reality-can-preserve-the-innu-language\/","title":{"rendered":"[Audio] How virtual reality can preserve the Innu language"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The United Nations has declared 2019 the International Year of Indigenous Languages. Specialists estimate that an indigenous language disappears every two weeks. Amalia Nanu and Steve Desbiens, co-founders of the Tekkie-Mamu Foundation<\/a>, decided to take action to preserve the Innu language in the North Shore community of Pessamit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Passionate about technology, Amalia came up with the idea of using young people’s attraction to virtual reality (VR) to develop a project that would involve the community and enable elders to pass on their culture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Listen to the story of this project (in French) led by an enthusiastic woman who decided to take action to safeguard the Innu language.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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