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Category Archives: Linguists

Reviving Australia’s Indigenous Languages
Academics / Al Jazeera / Linguists

Reviving Australia’s Indigenous Languages

Posted on August 8, 2021 by Smriti Daniel

Lavinia Lovie Richards knows what it is to wake a sleeping language. The last native speaker of Barngarla, elder Moonie Davis, died back in the 1960s. He took with him a beautiful and complex language and was reportedly the last of his Aboriginal tribe to know songs that called the sharks and dolphins to chase … Continue reading →

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"...the language of the body did not suit the soul. Our spirits are eternal, they don't tear or heal - they change. The question should never be, how do I heal from this, it should be: who am I changing into?"
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Trees here still bear the scars of that black summer, but the forest is growing back and the flowers are blooming.
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