<font><font face="georgia,serif">6 June, 2012 11:04 AM AEST<br><br>Indigenous LOTE program saves dying language<br><br>By Alice Roberts <br>AUS<br><br>Speaking to one another is something we take for granted but for some people their language is slowly dying. <br>
<br>The community of Woorabinda, 200 kilometres west of Rockhampton, is paving a new way for education with their Indigenous LOTE program.<br><br>The program is teaching primary school students the Ghungalu dialect.<br><br>
Chairman of the Woorabinda LOTE Program Shemmie Leisha is a Ghungalu descendent and one of only six Australians who can speak his family's language.<br><br>"I see us as the Ghungalu's leading the way for other language groups because Woorabinda is made up of 52 different language groups," he says.<br>
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