Revitalising Endangered Languages and Cultural Heritage through Language Technology: A Pilot Study for Dzardzongke

Hannah Claus, Songbo Hu, Emre Isik, Anna Korhonen, Kitty Liu, Marieke Meelen


Abstract
In this short paper, we present the first prototype of a mobile application to help preserve and revitalise the endangered language and cultural heritage of the speakers of Dzardzongke, a Tibetic language spoken in South Mustang, Nepal. With this pilot study, we provide a collaborative and highly accessible solution to revitalisation that has potential for any community interested in preserving their language and culture.
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2026.computel-1.8
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Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-9)
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July
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2026
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San Diego, California, USA
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Godfred Agyapong, Sarah Moeller, Antti Arppe, Ali Marashian, Daisy Rosenblum
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Association for Computational Linguistics
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Hannah Claus, Songbo Hu, Emre Isik, Anna Korhonen, Kitty Liu, and Marieke Meelen. 2026. Revitalising Endangered Languages and Cultural Heritage through Language Technology: A Pilot Study for Dzardzongke. In Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-9), pages 72–79, San Diego, California, USA. Association for Computational Linguistics.
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Revitalising Endangered Languages and Cultural Heritage through Language Technology: A Pilot Study for Dzardzongke (Claus et al., ComputEL 2026)
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