Science & Technology
App to help save ancient language
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T.K. RandallJanuary 19, 2012 ·
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Researchers are developing a smartphone application to help save a dying Aboriginal language.
Using a grant from the government one Australian researcher has been developing a smartphone application that will help save one of the country's top endangered languages. Currently spoken by only 150 individuals, the language will be kept alive by the app which will store enough information to allow future generations to be able to speak it.
The language of Iwaidja is thousands of years old but on Croker Island in the Top End only about 150 people still speak it. Iwaidja is one of about 50 known Aboriginal languages of Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. Bruce Birch from the Minjilang Endangered Languages Project has been working with locals to try to save it.
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Australian Broadcasting Corporation |
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