Whispers of forbidden tongues (fwd link)

[Phillip E Cash Cash]

Whispers of forbidden tongues

BY: ILANA MUSHIN From: The Australian January 25, 2012 12:00AM

PEOPLE from 52 language groups live in the central Queensland
Aboriginal community of Woorabinda, but most of these are silenced.
I'm told "there's a lady who lives over there, she knows some
language". I can visit her and ask her to excavate some words from her
memory.

A 90-year-old man tells me he spoke his language with his mother, who
died in 1944 but has had no one to speak it with since then.

Access full article below:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/higher-education/opinion/whispers-of-forbidden-tongues/story-e6frgcko-1226252802024

Note: this news article appears in The Australian news web page, but
it is a subscription-based link with only the above caption.  Maybe
somebody from down under can post the full article!  Thanks in
advance.