ANU working to document Indigenous languages  »

An ANU Summer Scholarship program offers students the chance to assist with dictionaries for a number of Aboriginal languages. Image: Graeme Churchard, Flickr. If we don't act now we will lose a valuable part of our heritage. Australia has already lost many Indigenous languages, and we're going to lose more. Researchers at The Australian National University (ANU) are working to document some of Australia's oldest Indigenous languages which are at risk of being lost forever. The ANU is currently offering a Summer Scholarship program for students to assist in working on dictionaries for a number of Aboriginal languages. Professor Jane Simpson of the ARC Centre of Excellence for the Dynamics of Language said the work was crucial.
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