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</p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Hi all, </span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Times"></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Apologies for cross-posting.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Below is a quick-and-dirty audit of
existing web resources for Australian languages.</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Please tell me! Is there a general or particular demand out there for a web-based resource that is <b>not</b> already being met by these sites? </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">If Tinkerbell granted you one web-based wish what would it be? </span><span style="font-family:Arial"> Eg, </span><span style="font-family:Arial">Do we need a broad public discussion forum for languages? More email lists? Something else?</span></p>

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  <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Arial">Site</span></b></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Arial">Service</span></b></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-family:Arial">Main audience</span></b></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">RNLD</span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Archived email list for issues in
  language endangerment and technical questions about language documentation; links, news etc</span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Linguists, language activists</span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">AIATSIS</span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Austlang, Aseda, Ozbib, Language and People Thesaurus, etc. </span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Speakers, linguists</span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Language centre websites (various)</span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Information about Australian languages
  at a regional level. Some have online dictionaries and other resources.  </span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Speakers, public</span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Facebook</span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Language-specific social networking
  groups</span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Speakers</span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">David Nathan’s site</span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Links to web resources for Australian
  languages including newspaper articles</span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Public, linguists, speakers</span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Wikipedia</span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Numerous detailed entries on Australian
  languages</span></p>
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  <p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Public, linguists, speakers</span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">(NB. Obviously linguists and speakers can be
one and the same, and everyone is a member of the public!)</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Many thanks,</span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:Arial">Piers</span></p>

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