Language preservation and revitalization through the Internet: the Niue language

Rocket Systems, the internet service provider on Niue, has been awarded a $US10,000 grant to build a website where young and old can work together to create a draft dictionary of IT terminology in Vagahau Niue. This initiative wants to bring together the young people, who are Internet savvy, with the older one, who preserve the culture and the language. This initiative recognizes the powerful role that new technologies can play in language revitalization and preservation: "the Niue language - Vagahau Niue - will survive only if it is in everyday use" Rocket director Emani Fakaotimanava-Lui says "and this means on the internet".