Jejueo Talking Dictionary – UROP Spring Symposium 2021

Jejueo Talking Dictionary

Rishma Balakrishnan

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Research Mentor(s): Moira Saltzman, PhD Candidate
Research Mentor School/College/Department: Linguistics, College of Literature, Science, and the Arts
Presentation Date: Thursday, April 22, 2021
Session: Session 5 (3pm-3:50pm)
Breakout Room: Room 18
Presenter: 6

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Abstract

The Jejueo Talking Dictionary is an online web-based application that is intended to serve as an online dictionary and language-learning tool for a critically endangered language, Jejueo. Jejueo is spoken by roughly 5,000 to 10,000 people living in the Jeju Province, located in South Korea, and is currently undergoing contact from Standard Korean. On top of this, most fluent speakers of Jejueo are over 75 years of age now. To preserve this language in a digital form, we are compiling videos, audio files, and text entries together into a website and a mobile Android application. All of this data will be made available in Jejueo, Korean, and English, so that users of this technology can use any of those languages to browse the Jejueo Talking Dictionary. Our presentation will entail the process of creating this product, from gathering data to building the website itself.

Authors: Rishma Balakrishnan
Research Method: Community Based Research
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1N7JyWKUMuraQnHFOyLyYYayh8w-aXWZk/view?usp=sharing

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