New Words in Indigenous Australian Languages
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Professor Jane Simpson (Head of the School of Language Studies at the Australian National University) on how Indigenous Australian languages had to evolve and adapt to accommodate words for new concepts, such as glass and goats.
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Dr Stephen Morey (CRLD, La Trobe University) on the languages of the Tangsa people of northern India and the problems of language standardisation in linguistically diverse communities.
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