Mapudungun Mew: Teacher Support Software for Teaching the Mapudungun Language & Mapuche Culture

Summary

Mapudungun Mew is software designed to support Mapudungun language and Mapuche culture teachers. It comes with a dictionary, activities, and cultural features such as riddles, stories and fables, testimonies, and natural instruments and sounds.

This interactive tool is the result of two research projects conducted by CEDETi UC (Center for the Development of Inclusive Technology).

Advantages / Potential Uses

• It has a dictionary containing approximately 700 words and 300 sentences in Mapudungun and Spanish, including activities and cultural features such as riddles, stories and fables, testimonies, and natural instruments and sounds.
• Because it is free, it is open to the public.

Development Status 

System complete and qualified in a real environment.

Opportunities

• Available for free download from the CEDETi UC official site at http://www.cedeti.cl/tecnologias-inclusivas/software-educativo/mapudungun-mew/ 

Research Team

Ricardo Rosas, Director of CEDETi UC (Center for the Development of Inclusive Technology)