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This is a long term research project involving both graduate and undergraduate students. Its purpose is to support Native American tribal language restoration projects. Out of more than three hundred languages indigenous to this continent, only about twenty have over a hundred remaining fluent speakers.
The name ACORNS stands for [AC]quisition [O]f [R]estored [N]ative [S]peech. The acorn is sacred to tribes in Northern California and Southern Oregon. This acronym honors these tribes whose support helped spawn this project. ACORNS software is free to download and use for non-commercial purposes; that is, it is not for resale.
You can find out more about this project by clicking the Acorns Linguistic Project link, on the left side of this page. We welcome your comments and your feedback.
We are applying for grants to help increase Native American participation in Computer Science. In the last year there were less than six Native Americans graduating with Computer Science graduate degrees in this very needed field. We are also applying for a high performance computer cluster that will support collaboration projects between the sciences on the Southern Oregon University campus.