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Reema Rattan, Liam Armstrong, Carly Dober and Judith Peppard
Preserving and revitalizing Indigenous languages
1 seconds Posted Sep 21, 2017 at 8:00 am.
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First up, Director of the research unit for Indigenous language at Melbourne University, Rachel Nordlinger provides an overview of Indigenous languages in Australia, and explains a project to recover virtually lost languages using new communications technology.Then, Mandy Nicholson, former project officer with the Victorian Aboriginal Corporation for Languages, a not-for-profit organization working to revitalize Indigenous culture, especially through language, talks about her work at VCAL and her new arts based Indigenous culture revitalization project.