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.- Anthology ID:
- 2026.computel-1.8
- Volume:
- Proceedings of the Ninth Workshop on the Use of Computational Methods in the Study of Endangered Languages (ComputEL-9)
- Month:
- July
- Year:
- 2026
- Address:
- San Diego, California, USA
- Editors:
- Godfred Agyapong, Sarah Moeller, Antti Arppe, Ali Marashian, Daisy Rosenblum
- Venues:
- ComputEL | WS
- SIG:
- Publisher:
- Association for Computational Linguistics
- Note:
- Pages:
- 72–79
- Language:
- URL:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-workshops/2026.computel-1.8/
- DOI:
- Cite (ACL):
- 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.
- Cite (Informal):
- Revitalising Endangered Languages and Cultural Heritage through Language Technology: A Pilot Study for Dzardzongke (Claus et al., ComputEL 2026)
- PDF:
- https://preview.aclanthology.org/ingest-acl-workshops/2026.computel-1.8.pdf