Restoring Indigenous languages (fwd link)

[Phil Cash Cash]

6 SEP 2013 - 2:44PM
Restoring Indigenous languages
>From an estimated 250 Indigenous languages at the time of European
settlement, only about 20 are now widely spoken in Australia.

But where governments once ordered that the languages not be spoken, they
are now funding their revival.



Whether the restoration efforts are enough for widespread revitalisation of
the languages is yet to be seen, but Indigenous workers in the field say
the seeds of success are beginning to germinate.


Access full article below:
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2013/09/06/restoring-indigenous-languages
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ilat/attachments/20130907/fee05529/attachment.htm>