High-tech bid to save ancient Top End language (fwd link)

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High-tech bid to save ancient Top End language

By Jano Gibson
Updated January 17, 2012 12:36:57
AUS

Researchers are developing a mobile phone application in an effort to
help save an ancient Aboriginal language that is close to being lost
forever.

The language of Iwaidja is thousands of years old but on Croker Island
in the Top End only about 150 people still speak it.

Iwaidja is one of about 50 known Aboriginal languages of Arnhem Land
in the Northern Territory.

Bruce Birch from the Minjilang Endangered Languages Project has been
working with locals to try to save it.

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