Restoring language strengthens Indigenous
pride and culture
Language returned to ‘spoken life’
By Stephanie Dalton, The Examiner, Friday, 14 July 2023
Picture by Paul Scambler
For the past 30 years,
the Tasmanian Aboriginal Centre has
worked deliberately and arduously to restore their language, palawa
kani, to its spoken life.
Palawa kani
is a revived language, composite of
several of the estimated dozen original Tasmanian languages that were once prolific throughout the state, a consequence of the
devastating impacts of invasion in colonisation on Tasmanian Aboriginal culture.
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