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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB">You may be interested in this blog I’ve written about a remarkable workshop on vernacular languages held in Honiara last month with CoEDL, U Melbourne, ANU and two local organisations the Kulu Language Institute and Islands
Bible Ministry. It was attended by nearly 100 people representing more than half of the country’s 70+ languages.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-GB"><a href="http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/news-and-media/latest-headlines/article/?id=reviving-the-spirit-of-vernacular-languages-in-solomon-islands">http://www.dynamicsoflanguage.edu.au/news-and-media/latest-headlines/article/?id=reviving-the-spirit-of-vernacular-languages-in-solomon-islands</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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