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EP1: Language as Archive

 

EP1: Language as Archive

 
 

Live at the Canberra Writers Festival.

Before British colonisation, there were more than 250 languages spoken on this continent. Less than half survive today, and most of them are under threat. In a live episode of their hit podcast, Archive Fever, historians Yves Rees and Clare Wright are joined by special guests Cheryl Leavy and Paul Girrawah House to discuss orality as archive: how language helps us know the past and why the work of language revitalisation – bringing languages back to life – is so vital to the future.

Cheryl Leavy’s book, Yanga Mother
Words to Sing the World Alive