ABC Radio Is Broadcasting In Two Indigenous Languages Now, Continues To Be the Absolute Best (fwd link)

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ABC Radio Is Broadcasting In Two Indigenous Languages Now, Continues To Be
the Absolute Best

By Alex McKinnon <http://junkee.com/author/alex-mckinnon> 2/9/14

Hey, here’s something happening in Australia that *isn’t* hideously,
hideously depressing: ABC Radio in the Northern Territory
<http://www.abc.net.au/news/indigenous/> has just started a twelve-month
trial of broadcasting the news in local Aboriginal languages, and it’s
going really well.

News bulletins read in the Warlpiri language
<http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Warlpiri_language>, spoken by about 3,000
Warlpiri people in the central Northern Territory, began broadcasting on
Tuesday August 5, while broadcasts in Yolngu Matha
<http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Yolngu>, an umbrella term for around six
mutually intelligible languages spoken by roughly 4,600 Yolngu people in
northeast Arnhem Land, started a day later. The news is translated from
English by the Aboriginal Interpreter Service, and broadcast by native
speakers of each language once a day.
Access full article below:
http://junkee.com/abc-radio-is-broadcasting-in-two-indigenous-languages-now-continues-to-be-the-absolute-best/40767

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ILAT Note: The media links to the actual radio programs are dated Sept 1,
2014.
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