Bilingual debate rages in NT (fwd link)

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Bilingual debate rages in NT

Posted Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:00pm AEST
Australia

Jerry Patrick Jangala was a young man in the late 1940s when he saw white men
for the first time.

They put him in a truck and took him from the Tanami Desert to what is now
called Lajamanu, a remote Aboriginal community about 900 kilometres south of
Darwin.

Mr Jangala is one of Lajamanu's last traditional elders, and his language,
Warlpiri, is one of only about 20 Aboriginal languages still spoken by
Indigenous children.

But that number could soon shrink even further.

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