<div dir="ltr"><b><font size="4">Tasmanian Aboriginal musician Dewayne Everettsmith keeps language alive through song</font></b><div><br></div><div><img src="https://s.yimg.com/ao/i/nws/abc_logo_horizontal.png" alt="ABC" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px; border: 0px; outline: 0px; font-family: inherit; font-size: inherit; font-style: inherit; font-variant: inherit; line-height: inherit; vertical-align: baseline; width: 80px;"><p class="" style="margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline">
<cite class="" style="color:rgb(108,108,108);font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;line-height:inherit;margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;display:block"><span itemprop="author" class="" style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;font-family:inherit;font-size:inherit;font-style:inherit;font-variant:inherit;line-height:inherit;vertical-align:baseline;text-transform:uppercase">BY ELLEN COULTER</span></cite>April 22, 2014, 12:16 pm<br>
A Tasmanian singer-songwriter is spreading the sounds of local Indigenous language beyond the island, as interest in learning it grows within the state.<br><br>Dewayne Everettsmith has released an album that includes the first commercially available song in Palawa kani.<br>
<br>Palawa kani was constructed in the 1990s from community memory and documentary evidence of about a dozen original Indigenous languages.</p><p class="" style="margin:0px 0px 16px;padding:0px;border:0px;outline:0px;vertical-align:baseline">
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