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Published: 15 August 2013</div><div id="page-head" style="padding:0px;border-style:none none solid;border-width:0pt 0pt 1px;border-bottom-color:rgb(238,238,238);background-image:none;background-color:transparent;outline-style:none;outline-width:0pt;font-size:16px;vertical-align:baseline;width:960px;color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:Arial;background-repeat:repeat repeat">
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Bilingual dictionary preserves the Gurindji language</h1></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(52,58,62);font-family:georgia,verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:22px"><br>
</span></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(52,58,62);font-family:georgia,verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:22px">A bilingual print dictionary</span><i style="margin:0pt;padding:0pt;border:0pt none;background-image:none;background-color:transparent;outline-style:none;outline-width:0pt;font-size:15px;vertical-align:baseline;color:rgb(52,58,62);font-family:georgia,verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;line-height:22px;background-repeat:repeat repeat">Gurindji to English Dictionary</i><span style="color:rgb(52,58,62);font-family:georgia,verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:22px"> will be launched at Freedom Day celebrations at Kalkaringi, Northern Territory, on 23 August. </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;color:rgb(52,58,62);font-family:georgia,verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:22px">
<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;color:rgb(52,58,62);font-family:georgia,verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:22px"><span style="color:rgb(52,58,62);font-family:georgia,verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:22px">Dr Felicity Meakins from The University of Queensland's School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies helped capture the Northern Territory language with other linguists and Gurindji researchers over 30 years </span><br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;color:rgb(52,58,62);font-family:georgia,verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:22px">
<br style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:none;color:rgb(52,58,62);font-family:georgia,verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:22px"><span style="color:rgb(52,58,62);font-family:georgia,verdana,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:15px;line-height:22px">Only 40 of the 300 Indigenous languages once spoken in Australia remain, and just 12 are still learnt by children. </span><br>
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