Lack of teachers eroding Aboriginal languages (fwd media link)

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Lack of teachers eroding Aboriginal languages

Updated Fri Oct 9, 2009 9:11am AEST
Australia

If you want to learn a foreign language in Australia you'll encounter relatively
few obstacles, but if you want to learn an Aboriginal language you run into
great difficulties. There are few teachers and little in terms of resources.
And that makes it particularly tricky for young Aboriginal people, who want to
learn their own language.

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