A bilingual print dictionary Gurindji to English Dictionary will be launched at Freedom Day celebrations at Kalkaringi, Northern Territory, on 23 August.

Dr Felicity Meakins from The University of Queensland’s School of Languages and Comparative Cultural Studies helped capture the Northern Territory language with other linguists and Gurindji researchers over 30 years

Only 40 of the 300 Indigenous languages once spoken in Australia remain, and just 12 are still learnt by children.

Dr Meakins said compiling the resource was a difficult task because the Gurindji words did not map onto English words perfectly. More.

See: UQ News

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