<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote">Forwarded From: <a href="mailto:edling@lists.sis.utsa.edu">edling@lists.sis.utsa.edu</a><br><br><br>ABC Online<br><br><br><br>Most Indigenous languages 'unlikely to continue'<br>
<br><br><br>A linguistics professor says it takes several generations to revive a language and many Indigenous languages are at risk of being lost.<br><br><br><br>Jeannie Bell from the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education says there are less than 40 Indigenous languages surviving, with most unlikely to continue.<br>
<br><br><br>"Some of our students are working with limited documented material of their language to try and bring language back and in a realistic sense they are only able to bring language back in limited ways," she said.<br>
<br><br><br>Full story:<br><br><a href="http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/01/2378956.htm?section=australia" target="_blank">http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/10/01/2378956.htm?section=australia</a><br><br><br>
</div><br><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+<br><br>Harold F. Schiffman<br><br>Professor Emeritus of <br>Dravidian Linguistics and Culture <br>Dept. of South Asia Studies <br>University of Pennsylvania<br>
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305<br><br>Phone: (215) 898-7475<br>Fax: (215) 573-2138 <br><br>Email: <a href="mailto:haroldfs@gmail.com">haroldfs@gmail.com</a><br><a href="http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/">http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/</a> <br>
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