Most Indigenous languages 'unlikely to continue' (fwd link)

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Most Indigenous languages 'unlikely to continue'

Posted Wed Oct 1, 2008 11:27am AEST
ABC News
Australia

A linguistics professor says it takes several generations to revive a language
and many Indigenous languages are at risk of being lost.

Jeannie Bell from the Batchelor Institute of Indigenous Tertiary Education says
there are less than 40 Indigenous languages surviving, with most unlikely to
continue.

"Some of our students are working with limited documented material of their
language to try and bring language back and in a realistic sense they are only
able to bring language back in limited ways," she said.

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