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Ngarrindjeri enjoys revival

The World Today - Thursday, 29 January , 2009  12:49:00
Reporter: Nance Haxton
Australia

ELIZABETH JACKSON: A special anniversary has sparked a revival in an Aboriginal
language that had almost disappeared.

This year marks 150 years since the establishment of the town of Raukkan - an
Aboriginal settlement on South Australia's Lower Lakes on the lower reaches of
the Murray River.

The town was the home of the man who appears on our $50 note - David Unaipon.
The Ngarrindjeri Aboriginal man was a preacher and an inventor.

Not only has the anniversary brought renewed interest in the man and his
achievements, it's also prompted a revival of his native language, as Nance
Haxton reports from the Lower Lakes.

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