<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style><h1 class="" itemprop="headline" style="font-size:2.5em;margin:0.67em 0px;font-family:kulturista-web,Kulturista-Medium,Georgia,Cambria,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-weight:200;line-height:1.1em">ABC Radio Is Broadcasting In Two Indigenous Languages Now, Continues To Be the Absolute Best</h1><h3 style="font-size:1.125em;margin:1em 0px;font-family:kulturista-web,Kulturista-Medium,Georgia,Cambria,'Times New Roman',Times,serif;font-weight:200"></h3><p class="" style="margin:5px 0px 0px;zoom:1;color:rgb(153,153,153);padding:0px 0px 10px"><span class="" style="float:left;width:1681.5px">By <span class=""><a href="http://junkee.com/author/alex-mckinnon" title="Posts by Alex McKinnon" rel="author" style="color:rgb(240,29,79);text-decoration:none">Alex McKinnon</a></span> 2/9/14<br></span><span class="" style="float:left;width:1681.5px"><br></span></p><p style="margin:1em 0px">Hey, here’s something happening in Australia that <em>isn’t</em> hideously, hideously depressing: <a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/indigenous/" style="color:rgb(240,29,79)">ABC Radio in the Northern Territory</a> has just started a twelve-month trial of broadcasting the news in local Aboriginal languages, and it’s going really well.</p><p style="margin:1em 0px">News bulletins read in <a href="http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Warlpiri_language" style="color:rgb(240,29,79)">the Warlpiri language</a>, spoken by about 3,000 Warlpiri people in the central Northern Territory, began broadcasting on Tuesday August 5, while broadcasts in <a href="http://www.wikiwand.com/en/Yolngu" style="color:rgb(240,29,79)">Yolngu Matha</a>, an umbrella term for around six mutually intelligible languages spoken by roughly 4,600 Yolngu people in northeast Arnhem Land, started a day later. The news is translated from English by the Aboriginal Interpreter Service, and broadcast by native speakers of each language once a day.</p><span style="font-family:proxima-nova,ProximaNova-Regular,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(0,0,0);line-height:24px"><div class="gmail_default">Access full article below: </div></span><font face="georgia, serif"><a href="http://junkee.com/abc-radio-is-broadcasting-in-two-indigenous-languages-now-continues-to-be-the-absolute-best/40767">http://junkee.com/abc-radio-is-broadcasting-in-two-indigenous-languages-now-continues-to-be-the-absolute-best/40767</a></font><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="georgia, serif"><br></font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="georgia, serif">˜˜˜</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style><font face="georgia, serif">ILAT Note: The media links to the actual radio programs are dated Sept 1, 2014.</font></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif;font-size:large"><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:proxima-nova,ProximaNova-Regular,'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px;line-height:24px"><br></span></div></div>