Elders and teenagers team up to save a language
In a small community in Australia's Northern Territory, a group of Aboriginal elders and high school students have created a free mobile app to teach their traditional language. The elders record songs, stories and the names of plants and animals. The teenagers design the games and the menus. 'Our grandparents carry the words. We carry the phones,' said one 16-year-old student.
Researchers say that more than 250 Aboriginal languages were spoken in Australia before British colonization. Today, only a small number are still learned by children as a first language. Projects like this one show that technology, often blamed for spreading English everywhere, can also help communities keep their own languages alive.
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