Voices from the grave: songs from dying languages (fwd link)

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Voices from the grave: songs from dying languages
DateFebruary 21, 2014 - 11:50AM
[image: Saffron Howden] <http://www.smh.com.au/national/by/Saffron-Howden>
Saffron Howden <http://www.smh.com.au/national/by/Saffron-Howden>Reporter


Fewer than a dozen people in the world speak the language in which Thomas
Kungiung belts out the mournful lyrics to "Truwu".


Kungiung, who passed away in the early 1990s, was a songman from Wadeye in
the Daly region to the southwest of Darwin.


His voice and his song - "The waves are crashing on them Truwu! My dear
country! Walakandha!" - reach through the decades in a recording made in
1988 at the genesis of a project to save the traditional Aboriginal
performance, wangga, from extinction.

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