Building and using language resources and infrastructure to develop e-learning programs for a minority language

We will demonstrate Võro Oahpa (http: //oahpa.no/voro), a set of language learning programs for Võro, a minority language in Estonia. When setting up and developing the system, we have made use of the infrastructure developed at the Saami language technology centre Giellatekno, UiT the Arctic University of Norway and the Võro language resources and tools – the online electronic dictionary synaq.org that also includes pronunciations; Võro speech synthesis; the morphological finite state transducer that is being developed as a part of the same project and a multilingual word list from North Saami Oahpa. Võro Oahpa consists of four language learning programs: Leksa – a vocabulary quiz, Numra – a program for practicing numerals and time expressions, Morfa-S – morphology drill and Morfa-C – morphology exercises formulated as question-answer pairs. The development is still in progress but the programs have already used within the Võro language course at the University of Tartu. We discuss the issues specific for Võro and show how combining the existing infrastructure, resources and experiences can make the development of a learning system for a language with limited resources easier and give extra values to the system.