Hi Piers,<div><br></div><div>What about the under-utilised Australian languages list? And the ALS newsletter and website?<br><div><br></div><div>The entries for Australian languages in wikipedia need a lot of work - I'm sure people would find it useful to have better entries.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Cheers,</div><div><br></div><div>Ruth<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Sep 19, 2012 at 1:37 PM, Piers Kelly <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:piers.kelly@gmail.com" target="_blank">piers.kelly@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
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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"><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">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">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">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">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">Numerous detailed entries on Australian
languages</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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