What Does Yaghan Have to Do with Digital Technology?

Abstract

Digital media offers some powerful new ways to organize and transmit linguistic data. This editorial suggests that linguists need to be more aggressive in exploting the technology so that information about language is spread more rapidly and in a more efficient format. To make this point, the case of fieldwork on Yaghan is examined. Though early fieldwork was carried out on Yaghan very little about the language is known because of the way the data was collected and reported.

Keywords

• Yaghan
• fieldwork
• Ona
• Selknam
• Yamana
• digital media
• Furlong