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On Indigenous Literacy Day, 3 September this year, Australian booksellers and publishers, writers, libraries and schools will join together to raise awareness and resources to promote literacy in English in remote Indigenous communities. Read Transcript
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Between three and five million people speak Romani, the language spoken by the Rom people, yet it originated in India. Professor Yaron Matras explains how this Indic language is thought to have become so widespread in Europe. Read Transcript
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Images by the illustrator and author Shaun Tan adorn the Children's Book Council's advertising for this year's Book Week (16-22 August, 2008). Reflecting on his fascination with both writing and painting, he reveals his thoughts on visual literacy and about creating an intimate distance between words and pictures.
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Borrowings from Aboriginal languages into Australian English have not been so numerous. Those on record total around 400, most of which relate to the bush environment. Read Transcript
Saturday 3.45pm
repeated Thursday 3.45pm
Presented by
Maria Zijlstra
Saturday 06 September 2008
The word for 'God', in all translations of the Christian Bible into the Malay language, has always been 'Allah'. But, in Malaysia, the government prohibited the use of the word by the Catholic weekly paper, The Herald, declaring that it is only to be used by Muslims. Though, since then, the Kuala Lumpur High Court has granted leave to review that government order.
9pm AEST
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with Jane Ulman
Dramatic fictions exploring a wide range of subjects, genres and styles
