How Apple Incorporated Indigenous Languages Into iPhone Keyboards

How Apple Puts Indigenous Languages on the iPhone Keyboard

To save endangered languages, tech companies like Apple are working with Indigenous communities to meet the next generation where they type.

From Wired: Apple news on Indigenous People's Day

"Today, Apple says its iOS keyboard supports more than 200 languages and language variants, with a handful added last year in iOS 26, like Haitian Creole and Nez Perce."

How Apple incorporated indigenous languages into iPhone keyboards

7 — Revitalizing the Cherokee Language with Apple’s Support Chuck Hoskin Jr. reminisces about a room full of Cherokee immersion students engrossed in watching How to Train Your Dragon. Except for Hiccup and Astrid, the main characters spoke Cherokee, voiced by members of the local community. “They’re hearing it in our native language. This didn’t [...]