Many Tongues One Voice (fwd)

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Sunday 20 September 2009, 1:30pm ABC1
Australia

Many Tongues One Voice

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In the first years of settlement in Australia there were more than 250 recorded
Indigenous languages. In just 220 years that figure has dropped dramatically
and only nine languages are considered safe with 20 to 30 languages at various
levels of endangerment. This story looks at how communities are retrieving
their dormant languages from historic books and journals and early film and
audio recordings and maintaining those languages through promoting and teaching
not only Aboriginal youth but all Australians.

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