<div dir="ltr"><h1 itemprop="name" style="margin:0px;font-family:NimbusSanNovCon-Bol,Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-weight:normal;line-height:45px;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-size:42px;letter-spacing:-1px">Learning to communicate with the past</h1>
<div><br></div>By SEAN McCOMISH<br>April 5, 2014, 4 a.m.<br>AUS<div><br></div>A REVIVAL is quietly taking place in classrooms across the south-west. <br><br>Unknown to most outside the Aboriginal community, the region is home to at least 10 indigenous language groups, taking in Gadubanud in the Otways to Dauwurd Wurrung in the Glenelg region. <br>
<br>Three weeks ago students at Brauer College finished a month-long pilot program studying local indigenous languages.<br><br> Warrnambool College will launch a similar program in June. <br><br>Pushed to the brink of extinction by colonisation, Aboriginal languages are making a strong comeback thanks to schools and a passionate campaigner. <br>
<br>Joel Wright’s dining room table is covered with maps and phrasebooks. For the past 10 years he has worked to bring back languages like Dhauwurd Wurrung in the Glenelg region and Peek Woorroong in the Warrnambool region.<div>
<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Access full article below: </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">
<a href="http://www.standard.net.au/story/2198914/learning-to-communicate-with-the-past/?cs=72" style="font-family:arial">http://www.standard.net.au/story/2198914/learning-to-communicate-with-the-past/?cs=72</a></div><br>
</div></div>