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Hope new pictorial dictionaries will preserve Indigenous language</h1><div class="" style="margin:0px 0px 0.5em;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;outline:none 0px;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;text-align:left">
By Chrissy Arthur</div><p class="" style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;line-height:1.3334;font-size:12px;color:rgb(153,153,153);font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;text-align:left">Updated <span class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word">Thu Aug 15, 2013 2:04pm AEST</span></p>
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Indigenous language from outback Queensland has been recorded in new pictorial dictionaries.</p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;line-height:1.3334;color:rgb(17,17,17);text-align:left"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">The natural resource management group Desert Channels Queensland (DCQ) has worked for two years on the project and is now rolling out dictionaries to local schools and libraries.</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;line-height:1.3334;color:rgb(17,17,17);text-align:left"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">DCQ spokesman Jeff Poole says while there are 14 main language groups in the region, it was only able to research five, including the Pitta Pitta and Kalkadoon.</font></p>
<p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;line-height:1.3334;color:rgb(17,17,17);text-align:left"></p><p style="margin:0px 0px 1em;padding:0px;word-wrap:break-word;line-height:1.3334"><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif">Access full article below: </font></p>
<div><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif"><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-15/hope-new-dictionaries-will-preserve-indigenous-language/4888400">http://www.abc.net.au/news/2013-08-15/hope-new-dictionaries-will-preserve-indigenous-language/4888400</a></font><br>
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