Aboriginal language returns from the dead (fwd link)

[Phil Cash Cash]

Way to go Jack (my friend)!  I hope many of you here on ILAT will someday
come to know what Jack is doing with Karuna.

Phil
UofA

On Mon, Oct 1, 2012 at 10:52 AM, Phillip E Cash Cash <
cashcash at email.arizona.edu> wrote:

> *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.
>
> Access full article below:
>
> http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-10-01/aboriginal-language-returns-from-the-dead/4289056
>
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