<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div></div><div>Thank you Debra for this post, </div><div><br></div><div>It is lovely to see some more work done in the Solo since I started in 2008. I am now out of the linguistics circle, but hope to go back to it one day.</div><div><br></div><div>I am flying to Honiara on the 1st of October to deliver the first illustrated book for children in Lau (Malaita). Very exciting as this was a community project from start to end.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div><br></div><div>Giordana</div><div><br>On 23/09/2019, at 17:03, Debra McDougall <<a href="mailto:debra.mcdougall@unimelb.edu.au">debra.mcdougall@unimelb.edu.au</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>
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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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