In honor of Dr. Chan Yeh
The Dr. Chan Yeh
Practitioners
at Stanford
The Dr. Chan Yeh Practitioner program is part of SILICON, the Stanford Initiative on Language Inclusion and Conservation in Old and New Media. It is named for the late Dr. Chan Yeh and made possible by the Yeh family.
Each year the program supports practitioners who build the fonts, keyboards, and language technology that let people learn, read, and write in their own languages.
The 2026 Dr. Chan Yeh Practitioners are working in South Africa, Mexico, Peru, and the United States. Support has been renewed for the 2027 cohort and their names will be released November 2026.
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MEDIZULU
A chatbot that gives medical students the isiZulu phrases they need to care for patients. isiZulu has 28 million speakers.
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Mother-tongue STEM in Africa
Tools for typesetting math and science textbooks in the Adlam and N'ko scripts, for 20 million students.
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Mixe (Ayuujk) typefaces
Open-source fonts and keyboards made with the Mixe community of Oaxaca, including a type inspired by the ancient Epi-Olmec script.
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Indigenous languages platform
One place to find fonts, keyboards, and typefaces for the Indigenous languages of Latin America.
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Puno Quechua
Everyday sentences with recorded pronunciation for a language spoken by about 500,000 people in Peru.
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