Many Tongues One Voice (fwd)

[Rolland Nadjiwon]

Thanks for the site Phil...

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rolland nadjiwon



phil cash cash wrote:
> Sunday 20 September 2009, 1:30pm ABC1
> Australia
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> Many Tongues One Voice
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> In the first years of settlement in Australia there were more than 250 recorded
> Indigenous languages. In just 220 years that figure has dropped dramatically
> and only nine languages are considered safe with 20 to 30 languages at various
> levels of endangerment. This story looks at how communities are retrieving
> their dormant languages from historic books and journals and early film and
> audio recordings and maintaining those languages through promoting and teaching
> not only Aboriginal youth but all Australians.
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> Access full article below:
> http://www.abc.net.au/tv/messagestick/stories/s2690210.htm
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