Australia is the place of vanishing languages (fwd link)

[Phil Cash Cash]

Australia is the place of vanishing languages

By Chris Raja

Updated November 19, 2013 14:35:04

*More needs to be done to protect Indigenous languages and the culture and
heritage they represent, writes Chris Raja.*


Recently, at the State Library of New South Wales, Sydney University's Dr
Michael Walsh made a significant discovery. In boxes of unpublished papers
he unearthed a 125-page dictionary of two central Australian languages –
Arrarnta and Luritja – compiled by German missionary Carl Strehlow.

Walsh has been working with Ronald Briggs, the Indigenous services
librarian at the State Library, investigating the languages used among
Indigenous Australians.

Access full article below:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-11-19/raja-australia-is-the-place-of-vanishing-languages/5101822/?site=indigenous&topic=latest
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ilat/attachments/20131120/e9dccfc8/attachment.htm>