Wakashan

The consortium, led by an engineer, Michael Running Wolf, is developing an automatic speech recognition A.I. for Wakashan languages, a family of endangered languages spoken among several First Nations communities.

Yet, with a disregard of the laws of nomenclature, the Ethnological Bureau at Washington has only recently announced its intention of knowing them officially by the meaningless title of "Wakashan."

On the west, in British Columbia, the Athapascan tribes nowhere reach the coast, being cut off by the Wakashan, Salishan, and Chimmesyan families.

AHT, a confederacy of twenty-two tribes of North American Indians of the Wakashan stock.

The researchers believe automatic speech recognition models can preserve fluency in Wakashan languages and revitalize their use by future generations.