Aboriginal language returns from the dead (fwd link)

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*Aboriginal language returns from the dead*

AM By Nicola Gage
Updated Mon Oct 1, 2012 2:05pm AEST
AUS

An extinct Aboriginal language has been brought back from the dead, thanks
to a handful of dedicated people in Adelaide.

Twenty years ago, not one person spoke the native Kaurna language of the
Adelaide Plains, with the last known fluent speaker dying in the late 1900s.

But Jack Buckskin, 25, teaches people his native language at the Living
Kaurna Cultural Centre where a group is gaining TAFE qualifications in the
once-extinct language.

Mr Buckskin says interest in the program has been growing and the language
is again thriving.

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http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-01/aboriginal-language-returns-from-the-dead/4289056
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