Aboriginal language gets app of life (fwd link)

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*Aboriginal language gets app of life*

BY: PATRICIA KARVELAS
From: The Australian September 13, 2012 12:02PM


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The Ma! Iwaidja smartphone app, which includes a a 1500-entry
English-Iwaidja dictionary.
Picture: Iwaidja Inyman Source: Supplied

A SMARTPHONE app has been designed specifically for the documentation of an
endangered Australian indigenous language.

The Ma! Iwaidja smartphone app has been developed as part of the Minjilang
Endangered Languages Publication Project.

The project team, based on Croker Island in remote Northwestern Arnhem
Land, worked with Mr Bruce Birch, a linguist from the Australian National
University to develop the app.

The app includes a 1500-entry English-Iwaidja dictionary with audio, a
450-entry phrase book, a ''WordMaker'' allowing users to conjugate verbs
and construct short phrases, and an information section about Iwaidja and
other endangered languages of Arnhem Land.

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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/nation/aboriginal-language-gets-app-of-life/story-e6frg6nf-1226473337983
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