software development model for ethnobilingual dictionaries

A software development integral model for a dictionary to store and retrieve textual, visual, and most important, incorporating the audio of oral language. Taking into account both the characterization of indigenous cultural reality and the technical aspects of software construction. Such model consists of the next phases: context description, lexicographic design, computer design and multimedia, construction and tests of the application. There isn´t doubt about the influence of the contact of Spanish language with the variety of languages spoken throughout Latin-America causing the most diverse and extensive communications. Causing that in the interior of communities are interested in preserving their language tongue for people to identify themselves with their own roots and transmit this legacy to the next generations. The model its design to develop dictionary software with factors that are certain in indigenous reality as they are: low budget, functioning in computers with limited resources and human resources with minimum capabilities. And is exemplified with the development of a Spanish-chatino dictionary spoken in the town of Santos Reyes Nopala, Oaxaca in the coast region of Mexico.