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The last few decades, there has been a rise in interest in the ways that technology aids in the efforts to restore and revitalize the Indigenous language. The Ho language is an Indigenous Language of India. The study aims to understand among speakers, language educators, learners, and technology users effectively and examines how technology affects Ho language teaching and learning. Digital technology plays an important role in disseminating, promoting, preserving, and revitalizing the Ho language, such as Ho language learning, supportive, and encouraging roles. The technical framework for language revitalization expresses linguistic, social, cultural, economic, and technological elements that influence the possibilities for technology use in initiatives that revitalise Indigenous languages. This paper demonstrates that technology has a wide range of largely advantageous applications in language learning and teaching, that the benefits of these applications are shared by communities of all sizes and areas, that creative and contemporary technology applications are being adopted to support language revitalization efforts.
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Bankira, D., Panda, S., Dash, S.R. (2024). Role of Digital Technology in the Education, Promotion, and Revitalization of “Ho” Languages. In: Mohanty, S.S., Dash, S.R., Parida, S. (eds) Applying AI-Based Tools and Technologies Towards Revitalization of Indigenous and Endangered Languages. Studies in Computational Intelligence, vol 1148. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-97-1987-7_4
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