<div dir="ltr">23 April, 2014 5:30PM ACST<br><br><b><font face="trebuchet ms, sans-serif" size="4">Veteran linguist's work preserved<br></font></b><br>By Emma Sleath (Online Reporter)<br><br><div><b>The decades-old work of a Territory linguist is now providing a vital link to lost Aboriginal languages</b><br>
</div><div><br>It all started as a holiday job for the then metallurgist who was studying at Melbourne University and looking for something interesting to do during the break.<br><br>But the holiday job turned into a vocation.<br>
<br>Beginning in 1967 and continuing for over a decade, linguist Gavan Breen recorded at least 49 Indigenous languages across three states - work conducted for the Australian Institute of Aboriginal Studies, now the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Straight Islander Studies (AIATSIS) in Canberra.<br>
<br>Data generated from those recordings will soon be made available online, a free resource for descendants and part of an overall revival of Indigenous languages (as reported in<div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;display:inline">
</div>this recent Australian Geographic article.)<br> <br><div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">Access full article below: </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif">
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