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App lets Indigenous Brazilians connect in own languages / 34GQ8VR
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For Indigenous communities in the Brazilian Amazon, getting online is a challenge. Now, a smartphone app is making it easier to connect by allowing them to use their own native languages. "Linklado," an app developed by two young friends from the Amazon region, is a digital keyboard enabling native communities to write with the mix of Latin letters, bars, swoops, accents and other marks used in many Indigenous alphabets in Brazil. IMAGES AND SOUNDBITES