Second picture dictionary aims to save Indigenous language (fwd)

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[This is the print version of story
http://www.abc.net.au/central/news/200402/s1038240.htm]

Second picture dictionary aims to save Indigenous language
Thursday, 5 February 2004

A project to address poor literacy levels in Aboriginal communities will
be launched in Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory today.

The Kaytete Picture Dictionary is the second of a series of dictionaries
being developed for central Australian communities.

The Institute of Aboriginal Development project will be used as a
learning resource in the Neutral Junction school, Barrow Creek, Tara
and Stirling.

The institute's Josie Douglas says the picture dictionary aims to
encourage more people to speak Kaytetye.

"There are only a few hundred speakers of the Kaytetye language and by
any definition that number ... means that this language is considered
to be endangered and I suppose that all languages in central Australia
... there's a great need for language maintenance," she said.