12 July 2008
Learning Adnyamathanha language
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There are only some twenty people still fluent in the Adnyamathanya language of the Indigenous people of the Flinders Ranges in South Australia. But they are teaching many others, passing on their cultural heritage to all who are willing to learn.
(This year's NAIDOC Week is being celebrated 6-13 July. NAIDOC celebrates the survival of Indigenous culture and the Indigenous contribution to modern Australia.)
Guests
Gillian Bovoro,
co-coordinator of the Andnyamathanha language course, in Adelaide.
Eva Sallis,
novelist and co-coordinator of the Adnyamathanha language course.
Further Information
Adnyamathanya language and culture course
International PEN China Campaign Poem Relay
Audio reading and text translation in Adnyamathanha, by Lily Neville, of a poem called 'June', originally written in Chinese by the imprisoned poet and journalist, Shi Tao.
Presenter
Maria Zijlstra
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