Every language deserves a living home.
Living Heritage carries Indigenous languages and the culture they hold. Each language lives in its own home, with its own community, its own collection, and its own review, and nothing is shown until a person approves it. Pick a language from the menu above and step inside.
A language is not an archive. It stays alive because someone keeps saying it out loud, and someone else keeps listening.
Living Heritage is built around that, and around a second thing just as important: the people whose language it is decide what happens to it. Everything below is enforced in the software, not only promised in a policy.
The community decides
Every piece belongs to the community it came from and passes that community's own review. Consent is recorded against the record, and it can be withdrawn later without argument.
Made to be spoken, not filed away
A recording that only sits in an archive is a recording nobody hears. Here they become lessons, pronunciation practice you can speak back to, and read-alongs where each word lights up exactly as a speaker says it.
Every word carries its source
Where it came from, who holds it, and the licence it arrived under travel with the material wherever it goes, alongside the Traditional Knowledge labels the community sets on it.
Some things are not ours to hold
Sacred and ceremonial material is never taken in, whatever a licence might permit. Not everything belongs on a website, and deciding otherwise is not the platform's call to make.
A machine may draft, a person decides
AI helps sort and describe a collection, and it is labelled everywhere it does. Nothing it writes reaches a learner until somebody who speaks the language has said yes to it.
Each language keeps its own home
Its own members, its own collection, its own reviewers, its own pace. No shared pot, and no community answering for a decision another community made.
Learn
Courses, spaced practice, and a pronunciation coach that listens on your own device.
Walk the gallery
A first-person hall of the community's artwork, every piece labelled and credited.
Explore
Search the collection by theme. You see only what you are entitled to see.
Read along
Each word lights up exactly as a speaker says it, one line at a time.
Nothing is public by default
Every contribution stays private until a reviewer approves it, and consent is recorded with the item and can be withdrawn at any time.
Credit travels with the work
Source, licence, and the knowledge holder stay attached to every piece, alongside the community's own notices about how it may be shared.
Each language stands alone
Every language keeps its own home, its own members, and its own review process, so nothing is ever mixed together.
Governance is part of the software
Each community appoints its own reviewers and admins, and they decide what is published and who may see it. Every piece carries an access tier that the database itself enforces, so a restricted recording stays out of reach even if a page asks for it. Consent is recorded against the record with the name of the person who gave it and can be withdrawn later, and the Traditional Knowledge labels a community sets travel with the work wherever it goes. Every governed change is written to an activity log that names who made it, so the community can audit its own collection rather than take our word for it.
Built on TRU’s Safe Start framework
Thompson Rivers University’s framework for safe and responsible AI sets the guardrails this platform works inside: guidance on proper use, a route for raising concerns, and a person kept in the loop wherever it matters.
Read the frameworkContent shown here is drawn from public, openly licensed, or public domain sources and is presented for demonstration, pending community review. It is not treated as community approved culture. Sacred and ceremonial material is never included.