OpenSpeaks Archives helps document Van GujjariCEFR A1
17 Apr 2026
Adapted from Subhashish Panigrahi, Global Voices • CC BY 3.0
Photo by Joshi Milestoner, Unsplash
- Many languages are mainly spoken.
- OpenSpeaks helps record oral knowledge.
- People use audio and video to save speech.
- Van Gujjari is one spoken language.
- Older people like audio and video.
- Children are learning to read and write.
- Recordings must be returned quickly to people.
- Communities should control their own material.
Difficult words
- speak — use voice to say wordsspoken
- oral — by mouth not in writing
- recording — a saved sound or video fileRecordings
- community — a group of people who live or work togetherCommunities
- control — have power to decide or use something
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Discussion questions
- Do you like audio or video recordings?
- Are you learning to read and write?
- Should communities control their own material?
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