Aboriginals of Australia: New South Wales Library Receives New Language Funding (fwd link)

[Phillip E Cash Cash]

August 30, 2011
AUS

Aboriginals of Australia: New South Wales Library Receives New Language Funding

The New South Wales State Library has been given new funds in order to
further preserve the aboriginal languages beginning with reviewing the
library’s collection of early manuscripts of journals and letters

Below is an article published by Miller Mccune [see article link]

Earlier this month [August 2011], in writing about a new funding
program from the National Science Foundation and the National
Endowment for the Humanities, Idea Lobby blogger Emily Badger
highlighted the need to preserve endangered languages around the
world. It isn’t out of a sense of charity. Other languages are more
than just different ways to communicate the same ideas; they’re
repositories of completely different ideas.

Access full article below:
http://www.unpo.org/article/13117