Angkentye-yerrtye ileme mpwarele
Bringing back the right names
Download the original Arrernte Indigemoji app made by young people, linguists, Elders, artists and technologists in Mparntwe (Alice Springs). Read more.
Download the new Kaytetye language emoji app featuring 44 new emojis representing life and culture on Kaytetye Country. Read more.
Akaltyele anthetyeke awetyeke // To teach to listen
Awene-akerle atnanpintyeme is a voice-activated computer game made with the Indigemojis. It was designed by a group of 16 year-old students at Centralian Senior School in Mparntwe as part of a ten week machine learning program
With thanks to the 2021 Processing Foundation Fellowship
emoji-akerte // about
Indigemoji mpwaretyeke anyente irrereke intelhilenhilenhe areye, angkentyenge urrkapenhe areye, creative technology-nge urrkapenhe areye
2018-nge kwenhe nhenhe renhe mpwareke nhenge Arrernte angkentye imernetyenhenge ... akngerrepate areyarle akngerre itirrepirremenge nhenge angkentye nhenhe arenye areyarle uyerlpuyirremenge, Arne urrpetye ware kwenhe aneme nhenge angkentye anwernekenhele apeke akaltyele anthetyeke
Joel Liddle -larle tweet anyente mpwareke iperre anteme re Caddie Brain-nge anyenteke irreke tyerrtye urrperlekenhe emoji anteme mpwaretyeke
Joel re anteme ikwere artweye atherrenhe ikngweke, Kwementyaye/Dr Wallace Kemarre uthene Veronica Perrurle Dobson uthene, ware-urrke emoji urrpetye mpwaretyeke. Itne ahentye aneke arne areye akerte mpwaretyeke, atnunthe, awelhentye akerte, Arne arrpenhemarlke nhenge Arrernte areye akerte
Itne anteme ahentye aneke awenkarlke apmerrke areyarlke ikngwetyeke. 2018 holiday-ngewatye anteme itne workshops atnyenewarreke 7 weeks-ke library-nge emoji itnenhe intelhiletyeke,ne Arrerntele arritnye itnekenhekarlke akaltyirremele
Indigemoji nhenhe akwenhe mpwareke tyerrtye urrperle angkentye nhenhe arenye areyenge. Anwerne ahentyaneme resources-arlke awethe mpwaretyeke nhe nge angkentyeke akaltye irretyeke akwete uternemele, arne arrpenheme anwernekenhekarlke
awaye // listen
The Indigemoji team is a collaboration of Aboriginal people from Central Australia including artists, linguists and creative technologists.
First established in 2018, Indigemoji was created to provide a presence for the eastern/central Arrernte language on digital platforms. It came after years of concern from elders and language speakers that languages in the region were under threat, and there were limited resources online in Central Australian languages.
Following a viral tweet from Joel Liddle in 2018, Caddie Brain and Joel Purrurle Liddle connected to discuss creating a set of Indigenous emojis and building a team to help.
Joel invited two of his relatives, Kwementyaye/Dr Wallace Kemarre, and Veronica Perrurle Dobson, to join Caddie and Joel in drafting up a list of emoji symbols for the project. The team wanted to incorporate culturally relevant plants, animals, emotions and symbols that illustrated unique aspects of Arrernte culture.
The team wanted to get young people involved too, so during the summer holidays of 2018 we held seven weeks of workshops at the Alice Springs library to help draw and design the emoji’s on ipads, whilst learning the Arrernte names for each.
Since the, the Indigemoji project has collaborated with Indigenous people and languages throughout the region. We aim to build resources and technologies to encourage the learning, maintenence and transmission of important Indigenous cultural knowledges throughout the region.