Ktunaxa language revitalized through smartphone app
Christopher Horsethief is optimistic that a newly released smartphone iOS app will help the future generation keep the Ktunaxa First Nation鈥檚 ancient language alive.
He developed the 鈥淜tunaxaFont鈥 app with a phonetic keyboard option that allows users to write on Facebook, Twitter and iMessage in traditional Ktunaxa characters with full and small glottal stops (a sound made by obstructing air flow in the middle of a word), hard consonants (垄, k, m, n, p, q and t) and the raised dot (a, i and u) for long vowels.