Sydney School Leads Efforts to Revive Lost Aboriginal Language (fwd link)

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Sydney School Leads Efforts to Revive Lost Aboriginal Language

By Phil Mercer
Sydney
09 April 2009

A project at school in Sydney is leading efforts to revive an extinct Aboriginal
language that was lost after European colonization. Chifley College is teaching
Dharug to not only its indigenous students but others from Africa and the
Pacific Islands as well as non-indigenous Australians.

The sounds of a lost language echo across a packed classroom in suburban Sydney
as secondary school students help to revive an ancient part of Australia's
indigenous culture.

Dharug was one of the dominant Aboriginal dialects in the Sydney region when
British settlers arrived in 1788 but became extinct under the weight of
colonization.

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