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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>It is interesting (again) when the colonizers support the
revitalization of the languages that they so effectively brought to the "last
vestiges."</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV><FONT face=Arial>Paula</FONT></DIV>
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<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV>
<DIV
style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B>
<A title=dzo@BISHARAT.NET href="mailto:dzo@BISHARAT.NET">Don Osborn</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU
href="mailto:ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU">ILAT@LISTSERV.ARIZONA.EDU</A> </DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Sunday, August 16, 2009 4:58
AM</DIV>
<DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [ILAT] Saving indigenous
languages in Australia</DIV>
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<P class=MsoNormal>FYI, from the TK Bulletin blog at <A
href="http://tkbulletin.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/this-week-in-review-saving-indigenous-languages-in-australia/">http://tkbulletin.wordpress.com/2009/08/11/this-week-in-review-saving-indigenous-languages-in-australia/</A><o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>This week in review… Saving indigenous languages in
Australia<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>Posted by Kirsty under Indigenous and local communities,
Language, News alerts, Traditional knowledge<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>11 August 2009<o:p></o:p></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal>$9.3m to save indigenous languages<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>The Age [Australia], 9 August 2009<o:p></o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></P>
<P class=MsoNormal>CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA: The Australian federal government has
pledged $9.3 million over the coming year to help take 113 indigenous
languages off the critically endangered list. Of the 145 indigenous dialects
spoken in Australia, 110 are at risk of being lost, a 2005 report found. But
under the government’s national indigenous languages policy, there will be an
increased focus on protecting the last vestiges of indigenous language. The
policy will also encourage the teaching of indigenous languages in schools,
although it is understood not to alter the course in the Northern Territory,
where bilingual education is set to be scrapped in 2010. Read the article…
http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-national/93m-to-save-indigenous-languages-20090809-edza.html<o:p></o:p></P></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>