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Voices from the grave: songs from dying languages</h1><div class="" style="font-size:12px;margin:0.8em 0px 0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;vertical-align:baseline;width:723px;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:17px">
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<br></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Fewer than a dozen people in the world speak the language in which Thomas Kungiung belts out the mournful lyrics to "Truwu".</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">
<br></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">Kungiung, who passed away in the early 1990s, was a songman from Wadeye in the Daly region to the southwest of Darwin.</p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">
<br></p><p style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;vertical-align:baseline">His voice and his song - "The waves are crashing on them Truwu! My dear country! Walakandha!" - reach through the decades in a recording made in 1988 at the genesis of a project to save the traditional Aboriginal performance, wangga, from extinction.</p>
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