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Typesetting Syllabics (and More) in LaTeX
This post describes one way to use certain Inuktut syllabics fonts when writing documents in LaTeX, along with some other LaTeX tips.
How to make a Wordle clone for your language
This tutorial will help you adapt the popular Wordle game to another language!
Preventing feeding of g2p rules with case
When you write g2p mappings, sometimes you find yourself wanting to prevent feeding between rules, but your situation is too complex to be handled by the normal prevent-feeding option.
Tutorial: Choosing the right fonts to show Cree syllabics on your website
tl;dr: Use this font-family CSS declaration to successfully display Western Cree syllabics for most visitors to your website:
How to use the new Convertextract application for 'quality control' of ELAN annotations
Have you ever wanted to NOT spend hours tediously checking that k + ‘ is written as k̓ and not k’? If you said YES!, Convertextract is the app for...
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This blog post describes what a basic template for a post on this blog should look like. Feel free to just copy past the headers into your post and replace...
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Here’s a short tutorial on how to write your first blog post on the official Mother Tongues Blog. This tutorial assumes you’ve already signed up to become an author.
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Do you have a tip you’d like to share? Have you pulled your hair out fixing a bug only to find out that the reason the bug exists is because...
Category Blog
Typesetting Syllabics (and More) in LaTeX
This post describes one way to use certain Inuktut syllabics fonts when writing documents in LaTeX, along with some other LaTeX tips.
Language revitalization with Mozilla's Common Voice
The National Research Council and Ursa Creative have adapted Mozilla’s CommonVoice tool to help streamline recording and data management for Indigenous language revitalization.
How to use the new Convertextract application for 'quality control' of ELAN annotations
Have you ever wanted to NOT spend hours tediously checking that k + ‘ is written as k̓ and not k’? If you said YES!, Convertextract is the app for...
Why I made yet another Cree syllabics converter
The Western Cree languages—Plains Cree, Woods Cree, and Swampy Cree—are written using two systems: one with letters borrowed from the English alphabet, in a system known as the standard Roman...
Standard post template
This blog post describes what a basic template for a post on this blog should look like. Feel free to just copy past the headers into your post and replace...
Write a post
Here’s a short tutorial on how to write your first blog post on the official Mother Tongues Blog. This tutorial assumes you’ve already signed up to become an author.
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