Govt urged to help preserve Indigenous languages (fwd link)

Tue Sep 30 17:53:49 UTC 2008

Govt urged to help preserve Indigenous languages

Posted Tue Sep 30, 2008 12:39pm AEST
ABC News
Australia

The artists behind a sold-out play showcasing an Aboriginal language are calling
on the Federal Government to preserve Indigenous tongues.

The producer of the play, Ngapartji Ngapartji, says fewer than half of the 300
languages at the time of colonisation are still spoken, and in a generation
only 17 will remain in use.

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