Tasmanian Aboriginal musician Dewayne Everettsmith keeps language alive through song (fwd link)

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*Tasmanian Aboriginal musician Dewayne Everettsmith keeps language alive
through song*

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BY ELLEN COULTERApril 22, 2014, 12:16 pm
A Tasmanian singer-songwriter is spreading the sounds of local Indigenous
language beyond the island, as interest in learning it grows within the
state.

Dewayne Everettsmith has released an album that includes the first
commercially available song in Palawa kani.

Palawa kani was constructed in the 1990s from community memory and
documentary evidence of about a dozen original Indigenous languages.

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