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Restoring Indigenous languages</h1></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:'times new roman',serif;font-size:small"><span style="color:rgb(27,32,36);font-family:HelveticaNeue-75-Bold,Helvetica,Arial,'times new roman',serif;font-size:21px;letter-spacing:-1px;line-height:23px">From an estimated 250 Indigenous languages at the time of European settlement, only about 20 are now widely spoken in Australia. </span><br>
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But where governments once ordered that the languages not be spoken, they are now funding their revival.</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:HelveticaNeue-55-Roman,Helvetica,Arial,'times new roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:16px;color:rgb(27,32,36)">
</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:HelveticaNeue-55-Roman,Helvetica,Arial,'times new roman',serif;font-size:14px;line-height:16px;color:rgb(27,32,36)">Whether the restoration efforts are enough for widespread revitalisation of the languages is yet to be seen, but Indigenous workers in the field say the seeds of success are beginning to germinate.</p>
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</p><p style="margin:10px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px">Access full article below: </p><div><a href="http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/09/06/restoring-indigenous-languages">http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/09/06/restoring-indigenous-languages</a><br>
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