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Thursday, 15 July 2010 16:08
Technology Rejuvenates Neglected Languages
IT'S TECHNOLOGY'S 21st century whizzbangery that usually grabs the headlines — 3D TV, mobile information systems, social media and the like — but sometimes a new application to an everyday activity is worth mentioning.
Internet users in the West take for granted that they can communicate in the digital world…
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Victorian News
Tuesday, 01 June 2010 10:44
Our Languages in Victorian School's
The Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages has been working with Victorian Department of Education and Early Childhood Development (DEECD) and The Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA) on a the introduction of local Aboriginal languages into Victorian Schools.
The (DEECD) recently released a 3 year strategy for Language education which…
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Victorian News
Monday, 23 March 2009 15:20
Holding our tongues
We often think that the 'tides of history' have washed away most of the languages in south eastern Australia. But Aboriginal people say those languages are not dead, just sleeping. We hear the stories of three different Aboriginal nations whose languages were declared extinct last century. Incredibly, all those languages…
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Victorian News
Monday, 14 April 2008 14:07
Aboriginal Language to Speak Up
ABORIGINAL English should be recognised as a distinct dialect with speakers requiring the support given to those who speak English as a second language.
In a submission to the 2020 Summit, a group of linguists based at Monash University in Melbourne has called for formal acknowledgment that many indigenous people,…
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Victorian News