Sydney School Leads Efforts to Revive Lost Aboriginal Language

[Harold Schiffman]

 Forwarded From: edling at lists.sis.utsa.edu


VOA News



Sydney School Leads Efforts to Revive Lost Aboriginal Language



A project at school in Sydney is leading efforts to revive an extinct
Aboriginal language that was lost after European colonization. Chifley
College is teaching Dharug to not only its indigenous students but
others from Africa and the Pacific Islands as well as non-indigenous
Australians.



Full story:

http://www.voanews.com/english/2009-04-09-voa59.cfm





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 Harold F. Schiffman

Professor Emeritus of
 Dravidian Linguistics and Culture
Dept. of South Asia Studies
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA 19104-6305

Phone:  (215) 898-7475
Fax:  (215) 573-2138

Email:  haroldfs at gmail.com
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/

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