Blog: Linguistics
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Conservation of Indigenous Language Cards
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2 Sep 2019 Rhonda Smith, James CampbellThe Ken Hale language cards in the AIATSIS Collection number over 3500 and help document various Indigenous languages from the remote regions of Australia.
Arthur Capell and language codes
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11 Oct 2016 Dr Kazuko ObataFor many years, AIATSIS has been looking after Arthur Capell’s archive of over 230 reels that contain language recordings.
Literacy in language
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14 Sep 2016 Amanda LissarragueThe AIATSIS Australian Indigenous Languages Collection was established in 1981.
